Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive and talent. The tone for his spectacular career was set with the now legendary incident, 13 years ago, when, as a virtually unknown, 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, he triumphantly substituted for ailing Bruno Walter ? without rehearsal. "Like a shoe string catch in center field," explained the New York Daily News. "Make it and you're a hero. Muff it and you're a dope . . . Bernstein made...
...There is an invitation, even in solemn moments, to the dance. And there is song. In his first symphony, Jeremiah, Bernstein offered, along with Biblical rumblings and stylized Semitic murmurs, some beautifully sad and soaring melodies for soprano. In his most recent serious work. Serenade for Violin Solo, String Orchestra and Percussion, the Bernstein song ? immensely more mature now ? has been transferred to the violin; it is a highly impressive piece, his best so far, in Bernstein's estimation. Still remembered is his brilliant musical, On the Town (1944), in which he fairly knocked the eyebrows...
...other Crimson fall came in the 177-pound class, where Bob Foster threw Jerry Morgan in 4:27, also with a half-nelson. The extended his unbeaten string to fourth straight this year...
...soon as Jerkens turned 21, he got his trainer's license. He managed to ride out bad years by practicing what his father had preached: he worked over each horse as carefully as if it were the only one in his string. He went on claiming second-rate nags and turning them into winners with such consistent success that other trainers joked that he must be using some magical "Jerkens Lotion...
...distractions of an apartment hotel, we run a dismal gauntlet-slamming doors, dripping faucets, a view of an alley, rattling trucks and an s.o.b. who dotes on playing the banjo. Once my attention was taken from a patient by the sight of a whisky bottle swinging on a string outside my office window." They wanted a new building custom-tailored to their needs...