Word: angular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varied dialects made the singers hard to understand, but Hindemith's music is a model of clarity. Its expansive, flowing melodies were developed by the chorus, with the soloists assigned more angular parts. Less lofty in style than much of what Hindemith has written recently, it is tautly constructed, as responsive to the text's moods as litmus paper to acid. It is, as Hindemith himself said, a "light, gay piece"-but the gaiety is that of a master...
...angular, just-jawed Yale coach spoke but little and smiled not at all. Yovicsin, always affable, fairly effervesced. For Oliver, losing to the Crimson made a dismal season even more disconcerting. Victory over the Eli gave Yovicsin his fourth win against Yale in six years, a record few of his predecessors could boast...
...cars come in more shapes and sizes than ever before, yet have in common an easily identifiable look. It eschews the finny ostentation of the '50s. There is more sparing use of chrome, and more accent on cleaner lines, giving the new cars a leaner, more angular profile. The '63 look is one of luxurious functionalism...
...loves the swirling imbalance of the baroque, its angular geometry and its chiaroscuro effects. Certain of his street scenes would do credit to a landscape painter: complex diagonals draw the eye into the background. But the dramatic action of many of these scenes centers in the foreground so that the viewer must decided what to concentrate on: the drama or the beautiful, but extraneous street scene...
...Cubists Were Square. The Armory Show made its point, and it made movements like cubism so popular with collectors that those who failed to embrace it were thought to be square. Even Davies experimented with angular nudes, but they turned out more prismatic than cubistic. Soon Davies found not only his style but also his life altered, for he grew weary of backing a movement with which he had no basic affinity. Always a mystic, he withdrew increasingly into seclusion...