Word: chorus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were a kind of pedantic engineer on the borders of art." As a dazzling year-long European retrospective of Gabo's sculptures, drawings and paintings drew to a close in London last week, it was doubtful that constructivist would ever again carry that connotation. In a chorus of approbation, critics have proclaimed that Gabo is anything but a pedantic engineer. In fact, as the founder of constructivism, he ranks as one of the innovators of 20th century...
...Tanner plays it with the same cockney assurance. Quadrupling as his wife and his Russian, American and Japanese sweethearts, Millicent Martin is a model of cool English efficiency. The rest of the world's population, grouping and regrouping on a semicircular set, is portrayed by 23 exquisite Greek-chorus girls. Fortunately, every attempt at social significance disappears on the instant behind a frieze of smiles, swiveling hips and inch-long eyelashes...
Iolanthe conveniently divides its chorus into two parts: noblemen and fairies. The noblemen in the current production have been inadequately directed all around, and they neither sing clearly nor move in unison. For the most part the fairies fare better, but they too have their troubles. One had a noticeable case of laryngitis last night...
...ominous tremolo in the strings; the lights go out, the wave machine starts up, and to cries of "Quel bruit! Quelle flamme I'environe!", Neptune's pet sea-dragon emerges in a cloud of smoke. Hippolyte conveniently rushes in, is promptly swallowed (whole), and the scene ends with the chorus solemnly incanting, "O disgrace cruelle ... Hippolyte n'est plus." (Needless to say, the libretcist took his liberties with Rachine's Phedre; Paristans must have been pleased to find the evil Queen disappearing painlessly, and the goddess Diana bringing Hippolyte back to each, in her mechanical cloud, in the last...
...Busy Future. The men who will swell Labor's back benches are markedly different from the hot-eyed Socialists who stormed to Parliament in the 1945 election and opened the first session with a rousing chorus of The Red Flag. The new M.P.s are young (average age: 36), drawn mainly from the professions, and generally are pragmatists like Wilson. In fact, the moderate character of the new Labor M.P.s reduced the fears that a large majority would give the party's left wing strength to force Wilson into abandoning his support of the U.S. position in Viet...