Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reporter Sarah McClendon of the Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post and a mixed bagful of other newspapers had a special press-conference question for President Eisenhower. "It looked for a while as if Congress might wag the White House," she said, "but now it looks as if you have the power . . . to work your will on Congress. It also looks as if you were winning the propaganda war, sort of, between the Democrats and the Republicans. Would you give us some idea of how, what system you employed to do this...
...believe that there is any validity in such expressions as 'government by veto.' I am part of the process of legislation and . . . I, who am the only official, along with the Vice President, who is voted into office by all the people . . . think I have got a special responsibility to all the people...
There is plenty that is pure Brahms in this work, such as the perfect balance between the Romantic material and its Classical treatment; the special textures and spacings in the scoring; and the frequent rhythmical and metrical subtleties. And idea after idea is characterized by what the Germans call "Schwung," a term that unfortunately has no reasonable equivalent in English...
...three performers again played with great skill. Simonds' playing here was more robust than in the Beethoven, but still he was careful not to overwhelm the strings. All three took special pains to achieve subtle phrasing. And one noted here, as in the Beethoven, how nuanced the dynamics were in such matters as appoggiaturas and their resolution...
...teams used telescopes ranging from eight to 48 inches in diameter, along with special equipment for running unified programs of observation by visual, photographic, and photoelectric techniques...