Word: virtuoso
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...GROSSLY MISREPRESENTED. WE ARE REFERRING TO YOUR BADLY DISTORTED, WHOLLY INACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE DEWEY RALLY AT THE LOS ANGELES COLISEUM (TIME, OCT. 2). IF YOU ARE CAMPAIGNING FOR ROOSEVELT, WHY DON'T YOU SAY SO. . . . WE PREFER "SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP OF A HIGH ORDER" RATHER THAN "A VETERAN VIRTUOSO PLAYING A PIECE HE HAS LOVED FOR YEARS...
...Master still had it. Franklin Roosevelt was at his best. He was like a veteran virtuoso playing a piece he has loved for years, who fingers his way through it with a delicate fire, a perfection of timing and tone, and an assurance that no young player, no matter how gifted, can equal. The President was playing what he loves to play-politics...
Jack Benny, on U.S.O. tour in New Guinea with Cinemarmful Carole Landis, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Songstress Martha Tilton and Accordionist June Bruner, gave out with a few of his well-publicized violin notes for the benefit of a native and the photographers...
Jascha Heifetz, tuning up with two recitals in Rome before going on tour among front-line troops, announced that he would play only classical numbers, including some "musical spinach" like Bach's lighter works. The virtuoso observed that 10% of the soldiers "seem to like serious music . . . the other 90% get leg shows...
...some art lovers, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez is a Spanish Titian, to others a somewhat dismal virtuoso. But Spain's Habsburg-lipped Philip IV had no doubts about Velazquez' greatness. He took one look at Velazquez' first portrait of him, thereafter refused to let anybody else paint his picture, sat for 14 portraits by the methodical, meticulous court painter...