Word: unabashedness
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What kind of keyboard interpreter was Rachmaninoff? Like composer, like pianist. He was an unabashed romantic with unsurpassed gifts for pianistic col or, rhythmic thrust and pure trickery. But his most distinguishing trait at the keyboard was probably the pesky individual life of each of his fingers. When he wrote...
Other characters in the Watergate drama, most notably the President around whom the whole affair revolved, played major roles. Yet Nixon, to his own detriment, never took charge of the scandal, continually reacting to events rather than shaping them. The remarkable Senator Sam Ervin, who rose spectacularly as a national...
Vigorous Egos. On occasion, the camera lets the speaker enlighten the audience at his own expense: Alfred Hitchcock's comparison of a murder in Torn Curtain with the holocaust of Auschwitz betrays a pompous misreading of history. Howard Hawks' decrying of self-consciousness is contradicted by the rigidities...
Among both the law's defenders and its opponents, some highly unlikely political coalitions sprouted. Its sponsors in the Senate included New York's Jacob Javits, a highly vocal dove in Viet Nam's latter years, and Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis, an unabashed hawk. Both...
Perhaps. Galbraith is undoubtedly right in holding that the halfhearted, eleventh-hour attempts at socialism in the U.S., such as the federal rescue of the collapsing Penn Central railroad, produce worse results than unabashed governmental takeovers of some industries in other developed nations. And few will argue with the goal...