Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rigidly follow a formula of rewriting public speeches so as to emphasize what the reporter, sometimes with no knowledge of his own about the subject, thinks is the most important or sensational phrase...
...economic threat of the Communist nations. The Soviets and their satellites made fast progress. But the free world traveled faster. The record was plain in the soaring production statistics, the freeing of currencies from tight controls, and in the fact that the "economy of abundance," once a U.S. phrase and fact, was visible in other lands...
...last thought. We have heard much of the phrase, "peace and friendship." This phrase, in expressing the aspirations of America, is not complete. We should say instead, "peace and friendship, in freedom." This, I think, is America's real message to the world...
...death of the 18-year-old daughter of a close friend, Composer Berg interrupted work on his opera Lulu to write the concerto in the summer of 1935, died before he could hear it performed. A tenderly elegiac work, it spreads a filigreed web of wispy lyric phrases, works up to a climax drawn from a phrase of a Lutheran hymn (Es ist genug), ends with the violin soaring softly above the fading orchestra. Last week's audience warmly applauded Stern's sensitive reading of the concerto's twilit moods-which he describes as "neurotic...
...phrase Actually and Surprise, said Sittler, suggests that God's Grace, meeting us in community with a neighbor, also meets us in the actuality of world as nature. As Augustine wrote, "Thou hadst not sought me hadst thou not already known me." And Pathos and Passion illustrates man's condition and Christ's sacrifice, as in Gerald Manley Hopkins' lines...