Word: tasso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote a hundred times more than either of them-his collected works fill 150 volumes-and consequently more of what he wrote is dated; The Sorrows of Young Werther, for instance, reads in this unsentimental century like soap opera written in gold ink. But his finest works-Iphigenia, Tasso, Elective Affinities-embrace a massive range of experience, and in them all the print still lies warm on the page. Finally there is Faust, a masterpiece more than 60 years in the making, in which Goethe presents a central image of Western civilization and a hero who still stands...
...love of diverse viewpoints into his notable art collection, which so crowds his ten-room Park Avenue bachelor apartment that he has been forced to hang seven of his paintings in the bathroom. His tastes range all the way from ancient Chinese snuff bottles to the disturbing, threatening Tasso's Oak by Modern Peter Blume (price: $5,000). Art connoisseurs, asked to characterize his collection, shake their heads in despair...
...continuing development of Brazil's interior has only aggravated the problem, as the advancing armies of road builders and jungle clearers encounter hitherto isolated tribes. And Rondon's successors-he died in 1958 at 92-are divided as to the problem's solution. Colonel Tasso Villar de Aquino, 49, who now heads the Indian Protection Service, thinks that the Indian must be integrated into the white man's society. In this cause, the government gives De Aquino little help: the service's current annual budget is a scanty...
Like other fine practitioners of the art, Moore dislikes the very term "accompanist." His role, he thinks, is closer to that of a partner or, as another famous accompanist, France's Tasso Janopoulo, describes it, a "co-interpreter." Certainly Moore's superb performances bear him out. He has a remarkable ability to vary rhythms and colors in order to illuminate the shifting moods of a singer's text. Moreover, he is aware that "there are 20,000 ways of performing one piece." and his volumes and tempi are tailored like a Savile Row suit to the style...