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MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 19 AND 20 (Columbia). The rapport between Pianist Rudolf Serkin and Conductor George Szell dates back to their childhood in Vienna, but seldom have they made more of it than in this nonpareil performance of Mozart in his gayest (19) and blackest (20) moods...
...Security Council have a hand in the advisory group, and Cyprus' President Makarios grumbled that his tiny nation had room for only 7,000 foreign troops-even though an estimated 30,000 Greek Cypriots are under arms. But at least the diplomatic atmosphere had changed from blackest pessimism to guarded hope...
PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY NO. 6 (Columbia). Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra offer a vivid portrait of Prokofiev's worries at their blackest...
...Blackest of All. Old Stonebottom Vyacheslav Molotov, senior member of the anti-Khrushchev clique ousted from power four years ago, was denounced as the blackest villain of all. After his exile as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia from 1957 to 1960, the ex-Foreign Minister had been given a respectable sinecure as Soviet delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. During the past year, Molotov had become a familiar Viennese sight as he strolled through the Belvedere Gardens or sipped coffee at cafes. But instead of minding his pleasant business, the unrepentant Stalinist a few weeks ago dispatched...
...with that mannerism, and a silly remark made once too often makes fools, unfairly, of all who repeat it. Similarly, the impression persists that at least one-quarter of these Conrad Aiken stories begin with characters waking up in the morning, and that most of his women have "the blackest and fiercest eyes I have ever seen." The repetitions may not be important-short stories are not meant to be read end to end-but they do suggest the limitations of Author Aiken's range of concern...