Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only non-instrumental music on the program were some songs by Stephen Addiss '57. "Confitebor tibi," for baritone and 'cello, did not come off very well. The ungratefully jagged vocal line posed inevitable intonational difficulties. Since the music bore no relation to the text, I think the piece would fare best as a purely instrumental duo. On the other hand, "Dream" and "Go Seek Her Out," both for soprano, were truly vocal conceptions, the first with a chordal accompaniment for two clarinets and 'cello, and the second with an attractive arpeggiated piano background. It was a welcome relief, furthermore...
...Only the Hired Hand." Speaking as often as eight times a day, Stevenson bore down hardest on the Eisenhower farm program. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, he said, is "only the hired hand," while President Eisenhower is "the owner, the boss." Added Stevenson, sarcastically: "It is curious that all anyone ever says about the owner is that he ought to be re-elected President of the U.S." The real reason Eisenhower is running again, said Stevenson, is that "he can't afford to retire to the farm at Gettysburg while Benson is Secretary of Agriculture...
...love of Joyce Gary's life is life. Inevitably, bits and pieces of his own have cropped up in his joyous string of novels. Gulley Jimson, the rascally painter of The Horse's Mouth, bore the knowing brush strokes of Gary's three-year try at being an artist in turn-of-the-century Paris and Edinburgh. In Mr. Johnson, still the best novel written about modern Africa, Gary drew on his tours of duty as an officer in British West Africa during and after World War I. In A House of Children, written...
Skin drums were long banned by the British in order to suppress African tribal traditions, but Trinidad musicians discovered they could make a kind of music with tubes of bamboo. "Bamboo-tamboo" bands competed with each other, thunking large-bore tubes on the ground and whacking smaller sticks together in the air to create a rich polyrhythmic effect; onlookers, unable to resist the compelling beat, would pound anything that would make noise. But by the early '30s bamboo was on its way out-the police had found that the sticks were too likely to be used as weapons. Then...
...turning up at the right moment, or the right person at the wrong one, or somebody showing funk or something important disappearing, there is endless gang-aft-agleying, and Someone Waiting seems more an obstacle race than a thrill er. Never believable, in time it becomes something of a bore, and though Leo G. Carroll plays the father with his usual deftness, it is on the audience that he really seems to be taking revenge...