Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such is the flavor of My Name is Aram. Effortless, delicate and slightly boozy, the little tales carry a sense of comic-poetic anarchy whose only name is Saroyan. For those who get the hang of it, there are several solid miracles of literary slack-wire walking. There is less of the brassiness and tinhorn rhetoric with which he usually destroys his effects. There is more self-effacing attention to business than usual. Saroyan will always be a question of taste; but another book or two, and he may also be one of the best and most original writers alive...
...cock in Coq d'Or, soared in the grand jete, the ballet's classic leap. On other nights, when the stage was ranked with silk tights and tutus (tarlatan ballet skirts), pretty, plump-cheeked Irina Baronova and dark, lissome Tamara Toumanova took the spotlight for effortless spins, whirls, leaps...
Giving Caesar the benefit of an elevated takeoff, the experimenters first launched him with lead weights totaling two pounds attached to his feet. His flight was "normal, effortless, playful." When the weights were increased to four pounds his flights were shorter, obviously strained, and there were no dips, glides, circles. Eight pounds Caesar could not handle at all. Though he "beat the air wildly" he flew only 30 or 40 ft. before flumping to earth...
...winter, racing fans have been buzzing about Bimelech. Those who saw him race last year could not forget the effortless ease with which he floated in front of his contemporaries, winning all six of his starts-including all three two-year-old classics, Hopeful Stakes, Belmont Futurity and Pimlico Futurity. In the Kentucky Derby future books, more than 50% of the money wagered went on Bimelech's nose...
Died. Luisa Tetrazzini, 68, most sensational coloratura soprano of opera's Golden Age, whose effortless bell-clear high F# made musical history; after a long illness complicated by grippe; in Milan. She never recovered from a cerebral hemorrhage last February, and for several days before her death was able to take no nourishment except an occasional sip of champagne...