Word: tenderized
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...Jenkins dramatically held up an picture of Stevens and Schine. shoulder to shoulder, taken at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. last November. Counsel Jenkins made clear why he had introduced the picture: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it an fact that you were being especially nice and considerate and tender of this boy, Schine ... in order to dissuade the Senator [McCarthy] from continuing his investigation of one of your departments?" Answered Stevens: "Positively and completely...
...York and later had been the guest of Schine's parents at dinner. He produced a photograph of the Army Secretary posing with Schine, by then in Army uniform. Sneered Jenkins: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it a fact that you were being especially nice and considerate and tender of this boy ... in order to dissuade the Senator from continuing his investigation of one of your departments...
Love Affair (Felicia Sanders; Columbia). An intense lament with a fine tune, sung in a rough-tender style that puts Songstress Sanders right on top of the vocal heap...
...soul of a sparrow. His mistress, Dr. Lucienne Mogard. is as cold and sharp as a scalpel. When they entice Ravinel's wife Mireille to Nantes, their object is murder and their motive is 2,000,000 francs of insurance money. As a killer, Ravinel proves tender and compassionate. After Mireille drinks a carefully prepared potion, her eyes close and Ravinel tearfully helps to lower her inert body into a bathtub full of water. "Don't worry, Mireille," he says. "You won't feel anything ... I swear I never wanted to do you any harm...
...opening night drew near, Copland's shy doubts returned. The Tender Land, as he conceived it, was really only a step along the road to a full-evening opera to come; perhaps he was wrong to show it in Manhattan at all. He also worried about the human element: "When I write a symphony," he says, "I know the orchestra and just how it will play my music." Singers are comparatively unpredictable. But more important to Stylist Copland was the fact that he had foregone "the absolute originality of every measure," turned in an uncharacteristically relaxed score. "This...