Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manual and pedal dexterity, however, is admirable. Except for the final number on Thursday's program, he played with great accuracy: there were fewer than a dozen slips of finger or toe--an unusually high batting average for an organ recital. Biggs chose to end with the celebrated Bach Toccata and Fugue in D-minor, which he has played thousands of times. Evidently he thought he knew it so well that it needed no advance brushing-up. The result was, to put it bluntly, a mess...
...insufferably harsh. Most of the pipes are exposed, and are grouped in front of, behind, to the right of, and above the player. If one sits in a certain part of the auditorium, one can hear the sounds coming from the different directional sources. At some times, Biggs intentionally chose registrations that made this added dimension extremely effective...
...Disarray. The U.S. chose not to bat its reply back by return mail to Red Square, instead considered Khrushchev's letter carefully, probed for weak spots. The problem: the letter plumped into a scene of disarray of Western allies, of disagreement about important details in official Washington. France's De Gaulle was holding out for his private parley, all but refusing to come to the U.N. at all, and trying fruitlessly to rack up a new continental "third force" under French leadership (see FOREIGN NEWS). At home there was pressure from State Department elements and congressional Democrats...
...dollars' worth of welfare packages from Catholics abroad until the church would agree to let the government supervise the distribution. Finally last month, perhaps because of pressure from Moscow and his Communist colleagues, Gomulka decided to crack down in earnest. For its first show of force, the government chose the 600-year-old fortress-monastery of Jasna Gora, the most sacred of Poland's holy shrines...
...difficult task here, but managed to avoid most of the pitfalls that would have doomed a lesser writer. This is not a thesis play; nor is it a deep one. And it is not a comedy about sophisticated, upper-crust society--which is much easier to write. The author chose the just-plain-folks, people-in-the-house-next-door, it-could-happen-to-you genre, set within the framework of a specific middle-class cultural milieu--the sort that has tempted many American writers, with varying success, ever since Abie's Irish Rose...