Word: staccatos
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...crowd on a windy street jams itself around a little shop-door above which a loudspeaker blats out its staccato, excited sentences. A roaring mob in a smoky arena stands up on its feet howling again and again. The grizzly farmer puffs faster on his pipe, his wife's knitting becomes jerky and distracted as they loan nearer their radio. A group of elderly gentlemen silently draw up their leather chairs...
Suddenly the class tensed as a bugle shrilled in the Yard, staccato commands barked out, and there was a sound of marching feet. As every neck craned to get a view from the high old-fashioned windows, a band crashed into a swinging melody, and there was a scattering cheer from the dormitories opposite. The suave instructor walked indifferently to the window, heedless of the forgotten Horace. He watched the maneuvres below a minute, smiled, exclaimed "Cripes, ain't that great!" and then, "Class dismissed!" The army had come...
...with rings," was seen and worshipped west as well as east. A young Londoner, knowing no more of Venice than its rumored fame, caught some of the majesty, and more of the glamor, in a play called "The Merchant of Venice." Today Venetians themselves turn to its bright staccato drama for the noblest recollection of things past...
...Paganini." Menuhin asked her if she had ever heard Paganini. He sees few of his press notices. They are being kept for him until he is 20. Yet once when he happened upon a particularly rhapsodic screed his comment was: "But I have no good spiccato. I have no staccato. I play my double-stops out of tune, my vibrato is bad and my trills terrible...
Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and his sedate band lavished almost too much care on the hard, staccato beginnings of the rhapsody, the smart, shifting jazz rhythms which followed. People were enthusiastic about the smooth, melodic middle theme which the Koussevitzky strings played superbly but Bostonians never really accept any new music without consulting one of two critical oracles, aged Philip Hale of the Boston Herald or H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker of the Transcript. Gnomelike Critic Parker thought "this Second Rhapsody seemed tempered and in degree de-natured by reflection and manipulation. It sounded over-often from the study-table...