Word: unaffectedness
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As the only link for many years between the neo-classical Boulanger and the expressionistic Schoenbergian schools of music, he developed a highly individual, tonal style that is at once bitter and lyrical. Buoyed up by his melodies, his unaffected words often strike the sincere and ingenuous chord of a...
* Unaffected were half a dozen other theaters that are off-Broadway geographically (out of midtown) or contractually, because their capacity exceeds 299 or because their owners have special agreements with Equity.
Given this polish, why doesn't the whole thing take flight? One reason, perhaps, was the unsure touch shown by most of the actors, all of whom at some point fumbled their lines. The tendency of minor actors to overact was painfully evident in John Archibald's appearance as the...
On the eve of adjournment last week, Congress belatedly shouted its approval of a costly federal rescue for the tottering passenger railroads. The House and Senate approved emergency legislation creating a National Railroad Passenger Corp. to take over and run intercity passenger trains. Commuter service is unaffected.*
Because the bill called for a joint House-Senate committee to have jurisdiction over the computers, the House rejected them, fearing that the acquisitive "other body" would eventually gain primary control of the machinery. Thus the House declined to enter more fully into the computer era, long since inhabited by...