Word: nauseam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When psychiatry became the vogue several years ago, we were told to handle the teenager with kid gloves-"he's a sensitive adolescent"- ad nauseam. It's now grown to a frightening overemphasis via the movies and TV, which cater to the teen-age audience, and too often justify violence and sadism...
...often pompous emotionality, was sympathetically interpreted by the orchestra. Borodin often employs thick brass and woodwind textures in his scores, and the playing of these sections was particularly good. The objectionable thing here is the music itself, specifically the first movement, which is little more than the reiteration, ad nauseam, of a single motive. The rest of the symphony, although often cumbersome and awkward, is better...
...working clothes), could hit Generous John Foster for a small loan? If Saud can put his hand out, how about the plight of the small businessman? What with new taxes on trucks, new taxes on having over four employees, old taxes on telephones, travel, entertainment-just plain taxes ad nauseam. LOUISE BUCK ROBSHAM West Yarmouth, Mass...
...drew too heavily on Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. The connection with Israel seemed rather tenuous, except for a few Jewish turns of melody, particularly in the exciting first movement. The second movement fell into a cocktail-lounge style, with slithering parallel chords in the left hand repeated ad nauseam. The finale was almost wholly a piece of Leonard Bernstein jazz, and relied too much on sequences. Ziskin needs above all to develop self-critical taste...
...hear, ad nauseam, from certain vociferous patriots, that God is on "our" side. From the speeches of some politicians one gathers the impression that religion, along with NATO, should be cultivated as a potent instrument in the cold war. and that the Almighty has enlisted in the army of the "free world'' for the duration...