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Comedienne Kendall glides like an angular jellyfish through the role of Lady Broadbent, an elegant snob who sets out to make Husband Rex's teen-age American daughter (by his first marriage) the toast of the London "season." The toast, Sandra Dee, takes a lot of buttering up. After dancing with bumble-footed toffs at her first ball, she murmurs in a beguiling Bronx accent, "They're all drips...
...program started off with the Sonata for Oboe and Piano of 1938, with Michael Senturia '58 as oboist and Norma Bertolami Sapp as pianist. The angular melody of the oboe in the first movement was sharply contrasted to its piano accompaniment. The second movement, much slower and containing a fairly long melody for Hindemith, was marked by extreme clarity, as were all the sonatas...
...into another car. Half an hour later Pierre Pflimlin, who was completing his 13th day as Premier of France, walked into the Château de La Celle-Saint-Cloud, a government-owned residence in the Paris suburbs. Waiting for Pflimlin in the chateau was the looming, angular figure of General Charles de Gaulle...
...lecture, "The Role of Symmetry in Physics," Yang showed the relation between his discovery and parallel examples in physics where the discovery of "symmetry" and "invariance" in a system led to a law of conservation within the system. He cited conservation of linear momentum and the conservation of angular momentum as examples...
...Rhineland city, the war is like a persistent, annoying noise heard from a distance. The war means the NAZIS-whom Uncle Albert called terrible, but who are described by their schoolteachers as NOT so BAD. It means the rubble of the city that was being swiftly replaced by angular, modern buildings. Martin and Heinrich would just as soon forget the war, and so would their elders, bowed by a dead weight of memory and guilt. Martin's mother Nella, a blonde beauty who looks "exactly like the women pictured in the Nazi books about race-only not so boring...