Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rose and Hyman make more lyrical music together than the score does. Still, such songs as Loving You and The Day I Met Your Father maintain the tone of tenderness that gives the evening its underlying harmony. The dances are robust rather than stylish; after working 14-hour days and attending night school, those old immigrants exhibit an improbable excess of energy. But that, of course, is the sweet errantry of nostalgia that gives this gentle musical its appeal...
...there is a devotion to nature and to the virtues of the land that surprises the reader who thinks he is in the hands of a total pessimist. In near lyrical terms, Pavese expresses his warmest admiration for the peasants, their generosity and their capacity for honest work and robust living. As one of his characters replies when asked if he likes Mussolini's Italy: "Not Italy. The Italians...
Ranged between Fowler and Gainsbrugh, the latest economic indicators are mixed. On balance, they suggest that the U.S. economy may be more robust than it has been in over a year...
Since in what follows I am going to be critical, I had better begin by saying that this is a worth-while book. It is quintessential Lichtheim: urbane, arrogantly knowledgeable, wonderfully robust...
...that remoteness enhanced his originality. Such composers as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, who were working in the late romantic tradition, projected their explosive forms out of subjective, often agonized emotion. Nielsen's free-flowing counterpoint and virile rhythms sprang partly from Danish folk roots, partly from a robust, wholesome objectivity. "What business have other people with my innermost feelings?" he asked...