Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composer who discovered his special niche at the keyboard at seven, with his first polonaise, and seldom strayed from it. His family and friends implored him to write operas, symphonies, oratorios. But he called the piano "my solid ground; on that I stand the strongest." His compositions, with their poetry, fire and freshness, never came easily: "Before I have said my last word, I must go through horrible pangs and tribulations, with many tears and sleepless nights...
After dark, while monks and nuns bustled through last-minute preparations, the Indians trooped into the mission plaza for a special movie program. Wrapped in striped blankets or sheepskin coats against the cold night air, they chuckled at a cartoon and slapstick comedy, tensely followed a hard-riding western. Next morning they were up before dawn over their breakfast campfires, but it was 10 o'clock before the celebration began...
...little escapade plunges the young people into a pretty kettle of fishy dilemmas and New England puritanism. In fact, it takes Director Mitchell Leisen, Paramount's special maestro of the improbable, another full reel to simmer their problems down to a happy ending. Most improbable bit: "Deacon" Henry Hull's rich mint-julep accent served up as a deep-dish Yankee drawl...
...quite profound or true. Generous Biographer Steegmuller speaks of De Maupassant's stories in the same breath with Chekhov's, but many readers will feel that De Maupassant never achieved the warm, quiet sympathy and seriousness of Chekhov. Without those qualities De Maupassant takes his own special niche, close...
Lamar would not point to anyone in the line for special praise, but he did call end Stan Britton, elected on the bus ride up, a "swell captain...