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...named Sigi Weissenberg, who had made his U.S. debut playing Chopin with the New York Philharmonic 20 years earlier. Alexis even had some of Sigi's pianistic traits-triphammer virtuosity, brilliant tone, a briskly commanding approach to a score-but they were tempered with subtler shading and a surer sense of structure...
...contortions seemed to communicate respect for the music rather than genuine feeling. Due possibly to a certain degree of nervousness, Buswell also had a surprising number of lapses of bow control, with a tendency toward a glassy tone whenever he wanted to play softly. On the surer grounds of the more aggressive rapid movements, his playing was marred only by his arbitrary choices of moment for echo effects, a habit detrimental to the continuity of Bach's long, carefully contoured phrases...
...term--perhaps it was that same sense of the dramatic that allowed him to be photographed, during last week's cold weather, sitting by a cot in his City Hall office prepared to stay the night answering phone calls from freezing citizens. Had he waited until he had a surer grasp on his office. White probably could have devised a plan to remove McNamera. It's doubtful that he can do it now: McNamera's friends are on guard. Indeed one White insider says, "It looks to me like McNamera will finish out the four-year term [former Mayor] Collins...
Medical researchers have now found a surer and simpler way to protect the second child by inoculating the mother during a crucial three-day period following the birth of her first child. Heretofore, the problem has been that during childbirth, the bloodstream of the Rh-negative mother is invaded by hundreds of thousands of the red blood cells of the child, each carrying the factor that makes it Rh-positive. During the next few weeks, her system reacts to the foreign cells by developing active antibodies that can then attack the blood of all subsequent children...
Probably no winner of the Nobel award ever wrote fewer words than Seferis. No winner counted them out to surer purpose...