Word: virtuoso
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...equipment. Kennedy considered Mills the key to the 1962 session, and so he proved to be. He refused to back medicare, and it died. But he steered the history-making free-trade bill through the House with a masterful sureness, defended the tax bill on the floor in a virtuoso performance...
Last week Sarnoff beamed to the world that RCA had turned the corner in 1962. On record sales of $1.7 billion, the company raised its operating profits after taxes to more than $50 million-an increase of 40%. Most gratifying of all, the upturn was primarily due to a virtuoso performance by color TV and improved prospects for RCA computers...
...Hurok-sponsored debut. From a year away, Anievas and Hurok unerringly picked the first week of the strike. "This would be my luck," said Anievas gloomily, "to pick a week when the press is out for lunch. As things turned out, it was probably just as well. Despite his virtuoso technique. Anievas' playing lacked authority and. too often, the ability to express either the sweep of the music or its depth. But on occasion, as in Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Paganini and the singing passages of Sessions' First Sonata, he shed his tall, dark...
...music of almost monotonous sweetness and grace. Anybody who ever sat down to a piano lesson has tinkled through Clair de Lune, and since the great Toscanini performances of the 1930s, it has been almost impossible to get through a concert season without at least one rendering of that virtuoso war horse La Mer. But there is another view of Debussy-one that audiences are being reminded of more and more often in the centennial year of his birth. Debussy was in fact, a revolutionary who led such tradition-breakers as Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg into the 20th century...
Arthur Hill, as the professor, raises acting to the level of genius, and Uta Hagen, as his wife, is a virtuoso Medusa...