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Among the virtues: a firm command of the orchestra, which produced a vividly mysterious opening figure on the xylophone, and two flutes that appear to bump and separate like a pair of slow-motion dancers. Chief fault: thematic aimlessness. After the promise of those opening bars, the next part of the brief score is limp and weary-a routine expression of Medea's mother love...
...when they did not win, the surprisingly powerful Russians piled up points in almost every event they entered. The U.S. was substantially nowhere. ¶Bobsledding, almost a private sport for hefty, hare-brained daredevils, held no appeal for the Russians. Italian Jet Pilot Lamberto Dalla Costa, who knew every bump on the dangerous chute, put his long hours of practice to good use, swooshed home in front of his teammate Eugenio Monti. The best the U.S. could salvage was a slow fifth by Connecticut's Bud Washbond...
...naturally brought some new strains for G.M. In the furiously competitive race for auto sales, relations are more tense between G.M. and its major competitor, Ford, than ever before. Ford executives, who used to meet G.M. friends for a Sunday round of golf, now only nod perfunctorily when they bump into the G.M. crowd at the Bloomfield Hills Country Club. G.M. blames Ford for giving in last summer to the United Automobile Workers' Walter Reuther on the guaranteed annual wage. Fordmen blame G.M. for keeping silent while Reuther turned on Ford first...
...singing chorus is usually inarticulate, due partly to John Hollander's music; the dancing chorus, while legitimately formal, appears vapid against the strident actors; Cedric Whitman's translation hits the bump that jolts all colloquial renderings. The Greek dramatists are often not colloquial. They are, however, very, too, clever...
...moral seems to be that the couch cannot call the calipers black. In phrenological terms, the Bump of Causality remains as unobtrusive as a pitcher's mound in Death Valley, while the Bump of Self-Esteem looms over it like Pike's Peak...