Word: staccatos
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...Alice was merely the dragon protecting the treasure." She had enough intuition to recognize Gertrude Stein's talent and made a life work out of nourishing it. She was not just a factotum for Gertrude. She frequently made changes in Stein's writings, and her brevity and staccato conversation were an important counterweight to Stein's discursive, convoluted style...
...story, he would often advise "roughening it up" with abrupt transitions that might make the piece less readable but -he thought-more difficult to forget. Editing for him was mainly cutting out blocks of words; a Luce-edited issue of TIME was usually identifiable to insiders by its staccato style...
...work in concert. Though he was a courtly and compassionate man, Luce also had the magisterial presence of a Koussevitzky. Tall, erect, with clear blue eyes that could rake a room like a laser beam?or twinkle as merrily as Mr. Pickwick's ?he talked with a staccato concentration of word and thought that one associate described as "jammed machinegun" style. And, as his pastor, Dr. David H. C. Read, noted last week, "he listened too?with an intensity you could almost hear...
...Guarneri Quartet fully understood the interpretational problem involved, and played was a great awareness of the piece's total effectiveness. Only the somewhat staccato playing in the third movement could be questioned...
JOHN CAGE: VARIATIONS IV (Everest). Composer Cage arranges a curious counterpoint to the playing of David Tudor by splicing a variety of noises into the staccato piano theme: the sound of traffic on the street outside, a patrician English girl chattering nervously, a chanteuse, a coloratura, a boy soprano, Florence Foster Jenkins murdering high D at the end of the Queen of the Night's aria from The Magic Flute. Oddly but irresistibly, they add up to a cry from the heart...