Word: pleadingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ever proves usable. Most of it is too dull, and much too embarrassing to be shown. "We get a large number of suggestions." says he, "that reveal a kind of frightening sadism in people. School children ask us to trap their teachers in undignified or compromising situations. Little businessmen plead with us to capture the off-the-record attitudes of their large competitors. Ordinary citizens want us to catch policemen unawares...
...favorite refuge of a critic confronted with a new piece of modern music is to plead that it demands a second hearing. Last week Conductor Leonard Bernstein obliged. He led the New York Philharmonic through a performance of Lukas Foss's Time Cycle for Soprano and Orchestra, an atonal work based on poems by Auden, Housman, Kafka and Nietzsche, all of them having to do with the flow of time, clocks or bells. With Adele Addison expertly taking the vocal part, the work proved to be one of Foss's strongest-a mosaiclike structure full of wispily haunting...
Doubtless the anti-bigot bigots will tar me for this. But I will plead only what the papacy has always claimed for itself: that "the Pope has two swords." The religious sword we fear not at all. It is that political sword that shakes...
...hardscrabble hill-country life. Powers, he said, went to work for the CIA only because of "mass unemployment" in the U.S. Against Rudenko's suggested sentence of 15 years, Grinev asked for the minimum sentence, seven years. At the end Powers himself got a brief chance to plead, and said that he had never felt "any enmity whatsoever toward the Russian people." His voice was clear and strong. He did not join in his counsel's attack on the U.S., but neither did he disavow it. Apparently not aware that in Russia his defense attorney was as much...
...working in lofts, studios and stables, lovingly turn out instruments finer than anything Europe has to offer. They are split into two mildly hostile factions: those who stick to wooden frames and those who experiment with metal. William Dowd and Frank Hubbard, both of Boston, who are wood men, plead that metal introduces a historically inaccurate effect. Nevertheless, both are admirers of Manhattan's Frank Rutkowski, 27, who uses aluminum for his frames on the grounds that metal contracts and expands less (a wooden-frame harpsichord must be tuned virtually every time it is played and whenever...