Word: causticity
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...Left" leaves the "name" conductors and orchestras pretty much alone: it exhibits more of Thomson the Crusader. One series exhorts various cities to support their respective orchestras, another hurls some stinging invective at movie music (he excepts Aaron Copland's "Red Pony" music), and a third series collects his caustic remarks about the Soviet ban on "bourgeois" music...
...time. Writing for the last 30 years of his career in Die Neue Freie Presse, he had contemporary subjects worthy of his talents: Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms and Giuseppe Verdi. A trained musician and respectable pianist himself, Critic Hanslick was sometimes caustic, but he was always careful. His claim was that "I never criticized a composition that I had not read or played through, both before and after the performance...
...miracles of modern science, so I'm not disturbed by the fundamental arrangement. (I am told by a friend from Adams House that Irene was utterly horrified when this was revealed to her.) But as a result of many years of violent GI-ing with harsh abrasives and caustic merchandize, the upper layer of fine plastic has been eroded away, exposing the layer of textiles below. Now this leads to two hateful features: First of all, I object to having ravelings of socks in my food, however sterile they may be. But worse yet, the porous fabric becomes impregnated with...
Vastly amusing are Lucile Watson and Oscar Karlweis. Miss Watson plays the aunt of Hugo and Frederic in a gently caustic manner; Karlweis is magnificent as a melancholy millionaire who eventually tries to give away his money. In spite of all these excellent performances, and those by the remainder of the cast, there are scenes in "Ring Round the Moon" that drag. Most of these are in the first act, which is almost entirely exposition. This very slow first act has to be remedied before the play can hold constant interest...
...Balmy Optimism. The story of Route Coloniale No. 4 stunned France. Said Paris-Presse: "Everybody, from our cabinet ministers down to the man in the street, realizes now that the massacre of Caobang is the outcome of five years of neglect, hesitations, intrigues and balmy optimism." There were caustic remarks about Viet Nam's Emperor Bao Dai living with his family at the Cháteau de Thorenc above Cannes. Minister of State Jean Letourneau, in charge of Indo-Chinese affairs, on coming out of a cabinet meeting, tried to calm the excitement. Said he: "The French high command...