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Desmond Skirrow (1924-76) uses but twelve well-chosen words in Ode on a Grecian Urn summarized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Unapologetic Anthology | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Hawkes' genius lies in organization. She divides the period between 35000 B.C. and A.D. 500 into eight time steps. Each is examined on a global basis and shows in well-chosen words, maps and pictures what was going on throughout the world in such critical areas as art, architecture and technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Past Recaptured | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...concert start promptly, but there was no warm-up group to try the waiting audience's patience. Furthermore, the two-part format of the concert allowed the audience to have its cake and eat, too. The first part, which lasted close to an hour, consisted of a well-chosen selection of former hits including such favorites as "You Really Got Me," "Celluloid Heroes," "Skin and Bones," "Here Comes Yet Another Day," and "Waterloo Sunset." When Ray Davies wasn't flopping around like a marionette with rubber bands instead of strings for support, he was either pinching brother and lead guitarist...

Author: By John Porter, | Title: Korruption in Kinkdom | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

...must have felt like the young Louis XIV when peasants burst into his Palais Royal bedroom demanding bread. At the gates of Annenberg's 220-acre estate in Palm Springs, Calif, were 15 noisy pickets throwing beer cans into the shrubbery and indulging in a few well-chosen oaths. The greensmen hired to tend Annenberg's 18-hole golf course were demanding a pay hike. Annenberg took them to court for violating his right to privacy. Last week the California appellate court reversed a trial court's decision for Annenberg in favor of an appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 6, 1974 | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...Suite No.4 in D lacked the pulse of the dances it represents--the Bouree, the Gavotte, and the Menuet. Baker's conducting looked energetic but the energy seemed misdirected--he failed to set a strong beat. The 99th Symphony sounded bland and imprecise, even though Baker's tempos were well-chosen. Perhaps in an effort to compensate, Baker overconducted the second movement (Adagio), and his vigorous beating clashed with the lyrical 3/4 meter...

Author: By Ke-jui Hsiao, | Title: Yo-Yo's Solo | 3/13/1974 | See Source »

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