Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic, consisting of almost continuous recitative, punctuated with an occasional soaring aria. The opera reaches its vocal and dramatic climax in the Inquisition scene, in which Renata. a group of nuns and the Inquisitor weave eleven different vocal lines into a complicated polyphony, terminated by a staggering explosion of brass and cymbals...
Well acquainted with Soviet brass, including Deputy Premiers Anastas Mikoyan and Frol Kozlov (whom he hosted in Manhattan), Winston smoothed the way for getting the U.S. show into the U.S.S.R. during seven self-paid trips to Moscow. Acting in an advisory capacity, he backed up the hard work of Exhibition General Manager Harold C. Mc-Clellan and his fulltime staff. The Soviet government respects Winston's business know-how, has invited him to Moscow three times for counsel on home building. Unlike Fellow Capitalist Cyrus Eaton (TIME, Jan. 19), Winston caustically criticizes Communism and all its works. Says...
...Grand Alliance. The entire atmosphere in Big Steel's union relations has changed since Blough took over the company from Benjamin F. Fairless in 1955. Unlike Ben Fairless. who used to tour the steel mills with McDonald, Blough believes in keeping the union brass at a distance, never hesitates to take on the union in public. His hard new line is no quickly thought-up policy; as long ago as last fall, he met with other steel executives to work out the strategy for holding the line on the union...
...Raytheon, RCA, Avco and Sylvania are hard at work on missile and space systems. Smaller firms make components and instruments-some of them so tiny that a week's production fits into the rear of a station wagon. Many of them are so sophisticated that even company brass are hard-put to explain how they operate. From 128's small companies come devices that can read print optically, or probe space to guide a missile...
...dumping of Falstaff into the Thames; and what Falstaff later calls his "kind of alacrity in sinking" is conveyed by a descending tuba scale.) For the concluding dance of ouphes and fairies, Bazelon has composed more droll music--for tambourine and bass drum, with ludicrous oom-pahs in the brass...