Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...early days of American newspapers, if a big news story broke late or the editor wished to give it special emphasis, he ran it under the caption "Extraordinary Intelligence." As time went on, this cumbersome phrase was reduced to the simple word extra, came to mean a special edition to report some late-breaking, important news...
Norway's Finn Moe summed up the problem in one questioning phrase: "Fifteen fingers on one trigger...
...last week the phrase "Terry Baker" had become the all-purpose good word around the tidy Oregon State campus in Corvallis. An ambidextrous, introspective, gangling sophomore, Terry Baker has a pale pink face, an Adam's apple that dances when he talks like a walnut on a string, a curiously narrow torso and a pair of thick, rock-muscled legs. At 19, Baker is still a growing boy of 6 ft. 3 in.. 195 lbs. Right now he has the most impressive record in college football. Going into last week's game with Stanford, Baker was running...
...Erika Koth cryptically: "An accompanist is no lover.") Even as incendiary a singer as Maria Callas scrupulously follows the advice of her pianist, Italy's Antonio Tonini, in questions of interpretation. "Tonini pleases me," says she, "because he is an implacable torturer who makes me repeat the same phrase 20 or more times. He has always been for me like an expert surgeon who digs around in one's innards until the cause of the trouble is found and corrected...
...sure we all play better than Liszt." Nevertheless, most of the accompanists agree that their art is still low-rated in the U.S., while the situation is changing in Europe. English programs often avoid the word "accompanist" entirely, substituting the more palatable word "piano." In Paris the old program phrase "accompanied by" is replaced by the phrase "with the collaboration...