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Stylistically, he favors clean, sharp-edged, objective interpretations, free of flourishes and exaggerations even in the most romantic repertory. Some listeners consequently miss a certain warmth and spontaneity in his playing. Although capable of producing beautiful sonorities, he is admittedly not the poet or colorist that, say, Vladimir Ashkenazy is. Nor, despite his limpid, shapely way with Mozart and Beethoven, does he share the Austro-German classical tradition of an Alfred Brendel. Yet everything he does arises from such a deep, individualized conception, and is brought off with such musicality and unforced virtuosity, that it carries its own commanding authority...
...admit that incest need not be a perversion or a symptom of mental illness," he says. "Incest between . . . children and adults . . . can sometimes be beneficial." Indeed the new pro-incest literature is filled with the stupefying idea that opposition to incest reflects an uptight resistance to easy affection and warmth among family members. Writes Anthropologist Seymour Parker of the University of Utah cautiously: "It is questionable if the costs (of the incest taboo) in guilt and uneasy distancing between intimates are necessary or desirable. What are the benefits of linking a mist of discomfort to the spontaneous warmth...
...midway mark of the course, a few anxious observers waited impatiently in a beat-up blue Chevy. As the race swept by, they got out of the car, yelled support, and then went back into the vehicle's comforting warmth. Time elapsed: 15 seconds...
Pressler looks over at Violinist Isadore Cohen and Cellist Bernard Green- house, who nod and chuckle. The three men, otherwise known as the Beaux Arts Trio, are reminiscing about their precarious years on tour. It is something they do with almost the same warmth and brio as when they make music together...
bright, luminous point of consciousness, radiating light, warmth and knowledge." "Wow!" as a young New York woman wrote in the logbook after a $15, one-hour soak at Manhattan's Tranquility Tanks. "Orgasmic!" said another...