Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Barati: Siring Quartet (California Quartet; Contemporary). A fairly brief three-movement work by Hungarian-born Composer Barati, who is also the quartet's cellist. The three movements are consistently thoughtful, occasionally warm, once or twice fiery in a moderately dissonant idiom. Good performance...
...years of jazz, Papa Celestin has learned to play what his audiences like-"Loud," he says. That's not too hard, since that style makes him happy: "When I get warm and my lips are right, the music comes pouring...
Neither Kirk nor any other expounder of conservatism can blueprint the conservative mind or doctrine. Blueprints belong to the radicals, the Utopians, the innovators who drew the plans for new societies in the solitudes of their own minds. The history of conservative thought is found unpackaged, warm with the lives of men, glimpsed by the poets and novelists, hammered out by practical politicians who turned from immediate experience to distill the principles of experience...
...rains heavily in Tonga, in the warm South Pacific. Thus it did not seem unusual to Tonga's Queen Salote* that it should be raining in London on coronation day. Instead of withdrawing into the shelter of her coach like most notables in the long procession from Westminster Abbey, Queen Salote sat in the drenching downpour, a massive (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.), broad-faced woman in red robes and a headdress from which two feathers stuck stiffly upright; she beamed, waved, mopped rain from her face with a handkerchief, beamed again. The soaked, footsore crowd...
...feet." But the Queen was beginning to have qualms. Said Salote in a broadcast to her people: "Much as we have liked to stay in England, I think I must end by saying that we are looking forward to traveling home . . . The English weather has been very nice, and warm, but cold at times." Though it also rains in Tonga, it is always warm...