Word: stooping
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...American conductor - a temperamental twin to the operatic tenor - has shared the orchestra's celebrated status; some, indeed, have defined it. In Europe, many a conductor has become a stoop-shouldered civil servant or a traveling virtuosity show. But in the U.S., a first-rank conductor can settle down comfortably, find a sympathetic barber to whom it seems reasonable that he must look even better from the back than he does from the front, and seize the authority to make music in his own style...
...enough on the public, but think of a reporter. I've been fielding the Times on my front stoop every morning for 25 years and it's cold and lonely out there now. Besides, how do I know what I think if I can't read what I write...
...fact, She Stoops To Conquer is clearly the work of a critic: for it is an elaborate construction designed to poke fun at middle-class "uplifting" comedy and celebrate the comic virtues of members of the "humbler stations." Goldsmith turns a worthy squire's home into an inn, and makes the "inn-keeper's" daughter impersonate a bar maid in order to win a shy suitor. (This gentleman, you see, is comfortable not with "women or reputation and virtue," but only in the company of "creatures of another stamp.") Goldsmith's point is that in order to conquer--or rather...
...only that Hinkle's decision to cut the prologue is regrettable, since it is clever and to the point and that the program notwithstanding, (it refers to "Mr." Oliver Goldsmith), the gentleman was an M.D. Kirkland House has conquered me, and, my analyst assures me, I'm no stoop...
...fewer words, more drama and humor. The books-Fun with David, Play with Jimmy, Laugh with Larry-do not improve on the much criticized run-Spot-run style of older primers. But now most of the faces are brown,"kitty" replaces "pony," David makes mud pies on the front stoop, Mother hangs the wash on the clothesline, and a friendly white kid named Larry comes to visit with a rope-leashed pup named Wiggles. To be tested in twelve Detroit schools that are 50% or more Negro, the books shun explicit details of the ugly world in which their readers...