Word: proper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also had the kind of galvanizing effects that only a first-rate musical mind and heart can convey to an audience. Richter-Haaser's approach, particularly in the "Appassionata," was heroic, his tone boldly ringing, his rhythmic drive irresistible. In the Stravinsky piece, he may have lacked the proper corky bite, but his Brahms had a propulsive, thunderous intensity that swept his audience into a roar of applause...
...youth named Peter Bruff. Though courageous, Peter is an abstracted, mystical young man. He is also a poet, and his work, a heroic poem about the god Krishna, is going badly; he has caught the eye of a lustful Tibetan woman, who keeps luring him to her hut. A proper abnegation of the senses has become impossible; not once, he reflects mournfully, has he succeeded in thinking of Nothing...
...what promises to be a high scoring contest, the varsity will struggle against the single wing, an outmoded anachronism in this age of the quick opening T formations. With the proper personnel, however, it is a formation capable of moving slowly but inflexibly towards the goal line through any opposition...
Coach Dick Colman has the proper personnel. Tailback Hugh Scott, though not exceptionally fast, has proved an extremely powerful and canny runner as well as a capable passer. At present he is third in the league in total offense with 358 yards...
...made "banned in Boston" a national label eventually get disgusted with his supposedly proper flock? See MILESTONES...