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...already well on the road to maturity as a musician, and maturity was to mean a quicksilver brilliance of improvisation backed by more jazz technique than any other clari-BENNY netist can approach: a range of tone from biting cold to haunting hot, and a range of tempo from things so fast they just stand still and tingle to things slow enough to ride while drunk...
...There can be no excuse for ... lessened effort, slower tempo, reduced goals and apathetic resignation . . . My responsibility for the military defense of the NATO nations of Europe is not qualified. I am not told to defend just parts of them and their peoples. Nor am I told that my responsibility is to become effective at some future date. I have it today...
...meetings, Taylor often sits folded in thought, as silent as Buddha. Then he will burst into speech at machine-gun tempo. He can rage like a Shakespearean actor over an underling's blunder, yet he is also known for his gentle patience with misfits. He is widely regarded as a conservative, an enemy of much modern art, but he will cogently defend its vigor and experimentalism. Though he knows and likes his job as only a professional can, he has been heard to growl: "God, how I hate...
...lovers quickly took to Beverly's relaxed, motherly views of ordinary people-churchgoing Negroes in Georgia, earthy peasants in France, broad-hipped laundry women in Italy. The canvases were done with easy grace and warm understanding of the hardships in everyday life. Wrote Virgilio Guzzi in Il Tempo: "At times melancholy, at times naive, the artist pictures the life of the poor ... in such a way as to give us a poetic image." Added Italy's top critic, Lionello Venturi: "I think she will become a notable painter...
...members of the company and taken a good look around the unpretentious hall. "It is a theater with the desire to make art." For two weeks he coached the singers in Italian bel canto, worked with the orchestra, sweetening a pianissimo here, strengthening an accent there, whipping up a tempo to a swirling climax. Last week, on opening night, he lowered his baton on Puccini's Tosca...