Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Performance & Tradition. The St. Thomas Choir has sometimes been criticized on the grounds that its stringent interpretations strip Bach's music of emotion. The more lyrical school of Bach interpreters-including Karl Richter of the Munich Bach Choir and U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick-insist that Bach should be played more dynamically. "Thomas performs Bach," says one critic; ''Richter celebrates him." Actually, Cantor Thomas is a more venturesome man than some of his predecessors at Leipzig. After Bach's death, says the 28th cantor of the 15th, his music was almost completely forgotten until Mendelssohn discovered...
...guard the endangered fortunes of Europe's capitalists, in 1934 wrote it into law to protect the funds of victims of Nazi and Fascist persecution. Anyone can open a secret account in a Swiss bank, get a code number for all his transactions. The secrecy code is so stringent that the Swiss tax collector himself dares not inquire about a depositor's account...
...seemed foolish. "You just block them, and they have no place to go except in the arms of somebody where we don't want them to go." Ike's reasoning invited a second question: Was the U.S. preparing to bring China trade controls in line with less stringent controls on trade with the Soviet sphere of Europe? Always unwilling to announce policy shifts by way of off-the-cuff press-conference remarks, the President hedged. But behind a noncommital answer lay a surprising...
Schwadran said that the United States should insist Egypt abide by the six United Nations principles on the Suez Canal. If Egypt should refuse, the U.S. should apply stringent economic measures and should attempt to isolate Egypt...
...F.D.R. No one can reasonably deny the errors and terrors of the era. But in Schlesinger's version, financiers and members of the Hoover Administration almost without exception are boobs or crooks or both; their reluctance to recognize the Depression for what it was, and to force more stringent Government action, is attributed to nothing more than blindness or greed. And Schlesinger's set pieces on the U.S. scene during the Depression read like excerpts from the New Masses of the 30s; his description of the Democratic Convention hall in 1932 is thick with cloying, selfconscious phrases...