Word: wane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with the composer at the piano; Victor; 8 sides). By the time the late great Sergei Rachmaninoff got around to his fourth concerto, his powers as a composer were on the wane, but his powers as a pianist kept their vigor. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...Kario: monopoly but no one could ever recognize a person under that mound of greasepaint and sponge-rubber anyway. Bela Lugosi as the wolfman who finds warm blood and moonshine a most stimulating combination, grows progressively more and more, and less and less hirstute as the moons wax and wane...
...recent issue of Britain's weekly Aeroplane, the Red Air Force's Major General Kondratov said that in six months of 1942 the Russians destroyed 600 Junkers 528 in the air and on the ground. Wrote General Kondratov: "Along the Soviet front . . . we saw German self-confidence wane and then vanish when transport airplanes ceased to arrive...
Busiest group is the American Association of Variable Star Observers, who report their findings to the Harvard Observatory. Variable stars are distant suns which flare up, wane, flare up again with a mysteriously pulsating energy. Says one amateur observer: "Once you've watched a variable star in action, you're never the same again. It's like having your finger on the pulse of the universe." Variable stars (which include the Pole Star) pulsate, and nobody knows why or how, except that their behavior probably involves enormous transformations of matter into energy...
...Spain's King Philip II didn't like him, and Toledo's ordinary citizens thought his weird, restive, distorted canvases the work of a madman. Critics suggested that he was astigmatic, if not insane. When he died in 1614 his fame was already on the wane, and soon his greatest paintings were tucked away in dim sacristies and behind altars. The flashy, flattering portraits of brilliant Court-painter Velásquez became the rage, and El Greco was forgotten. Forgotten he remained for nearly 300 years...