Word: leeway
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Beecham is certainly the recognized authority in Mozart; only Bruno Walter is ever compared to him today. Koussevitzky's divergences from Beecham are emphatic; while Mozart's scores are not perfectly annotated and allow much leeway, he appears on several occasions to have violated the composer's instructions. Get the scores, compare recordings, and notice Koussevitizky's distortion of dynamic balance, listen carefully to his general phraseology...
...newspaper hit the streets with the phony flash. But radio had destroyed the few minutes' leeway that wire associations once had to retrieve their errors. So long as scoop-happy radio stations shot from the hip, wire services had to be triply careful what crossed their wires...
...must not be stampeded by such dislocations into elaborate controls or special dispensations. Our economy is a jigsaw pattern of interlocking buyers and sellers, producers and consumers. The pieces of the jigsaw will move into place best if we give people scope and leeway...
...artistic appeal which is 99 percent Elizabeth Bergner, star, victim, and Mrs. Carroll II. The only feature of "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" that distinguishes it from its fellow mysteries is the use of this physically and professionally exceptional Viennese star, Bergner, as a dramatic actress extraordinary, giving her full leeway rather than restricting her ability to the ordinary standing and sitting living room dialogue. Whatever Bette Davis did in the way of hair-tearing in "Juarez" and other "Bette-goes-mad" movies, is exceeded by the passion with which Miss. Bergner lives the part of a woman discovering her husband...
...Austin Fish '46, chairman of the Adams House Committee, disclosed yesterday that James E. Hampton, Steward, has promised improved conditions in the dining hall. Increased leeway with ration points will make larger meat portions possible in the extensive revision...