Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some sterner souls want to deprive their bodies of wine, good food and other sensuous pleasures altogether. "The sixties generation is no longer engaged in political activity . . . People feel profoundly guilty and are directing that guilt against themselves," said Historian William Leach in a New York magazine article last year. "Running, fasting, enables them to feel whole and pure and clean again." Most people are not going that far, according to Cornell University Psychology Professor Michael Sacks, but he adds, "It has become a sign of status, as a whole, sensuous human being, to have the ability to control your...
...pedestal, quill in hand and manuscript paper at the ready; beyond it, high on a hill in the distance, sits the Wartburg Castle, where Luther, in disguise, completed his translation of the New Testament while hiding out from Catholic wrath and Wagner set his opera Tannhauser. In Leipzig, a sterner Bach is memorialized outside the Thomaskirche by both a full-length statue and, not far from the church, a bust dedicated by Felix Mendelssohn. Genius pays homage to even greater genius: it was the romantic Mendelssohn, a Christianized Jew, who in 1829 revived Bach's greatest religious work, the towering...
...paper is at a crossroads. Winship, 63, is due to retire next year, and his successor must determine whether to discipline the Globe at the risk of diminishing its undeniable heart. Still too much a writer's paper, the Globe may need a sterner master in its next phase than the puckish, avuncular Winship...
...audience lies more than half a spectrum away. Timing is perfect in the second movement of Tanayev when the cello and violin echo one another, switching, however, for major (happy) to minor (sad). Then the Andante ("at a walking pace") espressivo begins, with major melodies blending into sterner, minor tunes at modulated keys. Taneyev might have been imagining anything about nature, the joy of life, or the prospect of low inflation in 1908. Whatever the case, the muscle of this Andante pulls the three other movements together centripetally...
...perhaps sterner measures are demanded. Try this, America: every child should be sent to bed without watching TV-or appearing on it. -By Richard Corliss