Word: impressionism
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There are, of course, enclaves in a lot of American cities that feel foreign because one group or another clings to a way of life that originated in some other country. In New Orleans the mainstream can have foreign ways. No one who ever took a close look at Mardi...
The absence of buildings in New Orleans done in the grand American scale was ordained partly by the sponginess of its ground. Anyone tempted to build a huge building had only to think of Charity Hospital, whose first floor had gradually become its basement. There is a theory that the...
Leading his first Ring, Conductor Barenboim leaves a mixed impression. His predilection for slow tempos is very much in evidence, yet occasionally he bolts precipitately, as in the final scene of Siegfried, when it is all that Polaski and Jerusalem can do to keep up. There is some piquant orchestral...
Indeed, from reading this biography, one gets the distinct impression that far from not being able to handle the rough and tumble ways of Washington, Fortas was all too good at politics, so good at it that he probably didn't belong on the Court.
Just because today's issues may be more "diffuse" than in the past and can't be as easily reduced to three-word political slogans doesn't mean that we should ignore what the candidates are saying on AIDS or the budget deficit and focus exclusively on Jackson's apparent...