Word: softest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movement sounded grim and dogged and too tense. With regard to the difficult dynamic problems of the slow movement, it is often the case that a relaxed, controlled mezzo-piano will actually sound quieter than the strained tone the full orchestra produced when trying to match the soloist's softest passages. The orchestra fared better in the opening movement, where it could display its brilliant sound with less inhibition...
...Softest Touch." The TV headlines are a major example of one news medium complementing another. Panel-show producers shop long and hard to find a guest whose appearance will climax the week's headlines and thus stimulate new ones. For the guest stars there is a chance to reach TV mass audiences that no newspaper's circulation can match. For this opportunity, guests are willing to hold back choice news items -a practice that often arouses editors' ire but also stirs their interest, since Sunday is a dull news day, and Monday's papers are often...
...bachelor, Berrigan works seven days a week "from early morning to early morning," is likely to show up at a dignified party in an outsize, loud sports shirt, and is famed among Bangkok's beggars of high and low degree for being the softest touch in town. He plans to stay on indefinitely. "I went back to the U.S. in 1951," he explains, "but I could not get un-Oriented...
...Carlos Garcia found his softest spot among the hardest hearts of all Washington, i.e., Washington's press corps, when in the week of Sherman Adams' troubles, he offered a timely ad-lib reply to a question at a National Press Club luncheon about why bribetaking and influence peddling were so widespread back home (TIME, April 21). Said Carlos Garcia deadpan: "That [corruption] exists in the Philippines I shall not deny. I do not believe there is any head of government anywhere in the world-this country not excepted-who can stand before you and affirm truthfully that...
...Baroja, 84, now an invalid as well as the tired lion of Spanish letters, whose works are cynical, realistic, often spoof tradition and women. Papa bore gifts-a copy of his Farewell to Arms inscribed to Don Pio "in homage from his disciple," a sweater and socks of softest cashmere, a bottle of Scotch whisky. Presenting his offerings, Disciple Hemingway said hoarsely: "Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we were young. I deplore the fact that you have not yet received a Nobel...