Word: technicality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...music spoke so eloquently that Sunday afternoon that members of the small audience told their friends. No one, according to some, had ever played Bach like Gieseking, and they rhapsodized over an amazing technic, a style that was as fluent and easy as it was immaculate. But his Bach, others said, could not compare with his Debussy which surely was the essence of poetry. The controversy, as over most artistic matters, might have been endless, for Gieseking is not a specialist...
...been in the U. S., Professor Auer was appearing in public-not in his own behalf but to lend importance to the debut of another pupil, Benno Rabinof. Eight years ago he had taken him, a prodigy of Manhattan's lower East Side, taught him the technic taught, of the he violin. As he had been taught, so he played at his debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from the Philharmonic, a Debussy-Paganini-Bethoven group with the piano. His tone was full, his fingers fleet, his ways pleasing. Critics used superlatives...
...grade, the Gillette coal is a sub-bituminous kind called black lignite-tough, deliquescent, easily crumbled when exposed to air, when it also tends to combust spontaneously. Storage of it requires a special technic, but since one-third of its weight is water it is cheaply shipped after treatment. Valuable by-products result and the coal itself-or some like it-has been found serviceable in specially built locomotives, by the C. B. & Q. and the Chicago & Northwestern R. R.'s Much of the Gillette field is owned by the U. S., which can lease it under the mineral...
Insisting on the distinction between a true architect and someone else, and impressing upon architects that theirs is an Art as well as a technic, were the convention keystones. To stress the Art of building, the Institute has enrolled representatives of arts with which the architect must ally his work to obtain unity of effect?sculpture, mural painting, landscape-architecture, etc. (TIME, April...
...thighs kicked as one, sixteen monumental wrists snapped down, eight long oars feathered the water of Lake Carnegie and dug in deep for another stroke. The crew of the University of Washington was rowing against Princeton. They had arrived from the West Coast a week before to perfect their technic and between spells of rowing their large shapes had been seen posing about the town in sweaters adorned with little oars-a crew of giants. Two of them were six feet five inches high; their average height was six feet three; even the coxswain was a big man. This display...