Word: spun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program seemed scarcely important, however, by the time Madame Schwarzkopf had finished singing Schubert's Seligkeit, one of the seven encores which she bestowed upon the audience with the charm of someone giving candy to children who have behaved well. Here her voice soared buoyantly; the pianissimi were fine-spun and beautifully controlled. This vocal gold was at the service of an extraordinary musical intelligence in the Hugo Wolf group which followed the intermission: each song, as Miss Schwarzkopf rendered it, became a drama in miniature. The alternately anguished and tender dialogue of Herr, was traegt der Boden hier...
...music, and performance. Mlle. Boulanger stood on her home ground: early and modern vocal and instrumental music. The selection of music avoided the Romantic period, and the blank from the death of Bach to the birth of Poulenc--1750 to 1899--accented the intellectualized, the carefully wrought, the finely spun. Inevitably, Mlle. Bouanger conceived and reaized the program in the image of her own precise character...
...founded Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute, which spun off the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and Washington's Carnegie Institution, which started California's Mount Wilson Observatory. He threw in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, the Hague Peace Palace, Washington's Pan American Building, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...dance band can squeeze in more than one quick waltz or fox trot before the crowd begins chanting "Tvist! Tvist!" The bands quickly oblige. In less than two months, German record companies have spun out 300,000 twist disks, hope to triple their sales in six months. Of 100 different twist tunes, none on the market is more popular than a weirdie called Liebestraum von Liszt Twist, which is selling nearly 30,000 platters a week. Sample lyrics...
...more days, Jarrell spun out his yarn, embroidering it with hints that the vessel might even be the mother ship of a vast fleet of coastal rumrunners. When rivals found nothing but salt water, and questioned Jarrell's story, the Trib replied by comparing him to Christopher Columbus. "It has been the lot of the pioneer ever to find on his return from a successful quest that those who remained at home the while were seeking to belittle his discovery," said a Trib editorial. But even the Trib was getting nervous. Jarrell left the office, sent back a messenger...