Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compared with Beethoven's more polished, rounded-and, some say, compromised-version of 1814, the original Fidelio turned out to be expansive and florid, bursting through its forms with a driving force that the composer was only partially able to control. Its heavy orchestration has a strain of wildness that Beethoven tamed in his later revisions; its soaring vocal lines, which he later modified, make harsh demands on singers. In all, there are significant differences from the 1814 revision on 134 of the vocal score's 276 pages...
...lost trade with the West, he is negotiating new trade and loan agreements with his Arab fellow socialists, the Communists, and sympathetic non-aligned nations like India. Last week Poland gave him a $20 million loan for industrial development, and East Germany announced $100 million more credits. But the strain will continue as long as Nasser insists upon keeping Egypt on a war footing against Israel and pursuing his expensive war in Yemen. Last week both Britain and the U.S. accused the Egyptians of bombing Yemeni royalists with poison gas. The two nations indicated that they would support international action...
...disturbances are planned in the U.S., Japan and Russia. Geophysicists will place ultrasensitive instruments deep in the earth. In such studies, tiltmeters will measure shifts in the position of vast subsurface areas, and, ideally, laser devices will be able to measure micro scopic expansion and contraction of bedrock, while strain seismographs monitor the kind of subsurface stress and crust slippage that occurs in fault zones...
After Lady Macbeth's mind has cracked under the strain, Macbeth nearly throttles the Doctor for his inability to cure her. Gradually he becomes more and more disillusioned. When the last charm proves hollow and Macduff relates his Caesarean birth, Colicos does not yell his reply ("Accursed be that tongue that tells me so."), as usually done, but rather delivers it very effectively at a soft level...
...over the world worship as epic entertainment and as a safe refuge for dreams of lawless freedom. In a very different way, the view of America the Violent is also reinforced by the Vietnamese war, in which critics both at home and abroad profess to see a growing strain of American brutality...