Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter (The Incredible Flutist) Piston's Symphony No. 5, probably his best work to date. It began with something that sounded suspiciously like forest murmurs, complete with flute and pizzicato strings. But soon it built a blazing climax on a pyramid of harmonies, brass on winds on strings, in orchestration as solid as Tchaikovsky's. The first movement, indeed, was a rejuvenated Piston; in the other two, however, he reached his high points of lyricism without seeming to aim for them, leaving a feeling of puzzlement...
...jokes were recalled during a soft-shoe routine ("You take a shower this morning?" "Why? Is one missing?" And: "Care to join me in a cup of coffee?" "Is there room for both of us?"). But the play had little to say, and fuzzed it badly at the implausible climax...
Amiable Idiots. In The Fifth Wheel, Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS) seemed to have an engaging little item. It was made up of a couple of crooks, a couple of priests, the Never Worry Finance Co., a magenta automobile that one of the priests calls Rosey, and $35,000 in cash, robbed from a bank, that the crooks have hidden in Rosey's spare tire. Unfortunately, neither the author, the director nor the actors seemed to realize that the strength of farce rests on credibility and surprise. The incidents that were not predictable were unbelievable, and both crooks...
...Moscow hospital, Mexico's pudgy Communist Artist Diego Rivera, 69, bounded out with a paean to the "miracle cure" of his skin cancer. The Communists picked up the tab for all his expenses, so Rivera made a grateful bid (untaken) to his hosts: "I would consider it the climax of my career if the Soviet government asked me to paint something for them here!" The U.S.S.R. struck Diego Rivera as little short of paradise. Said he: "I am very happy to have been sick here...
President Pusey will climax his first official visit to the West Coast tonight with an address before the combined Harvard Clubs of Southern California. The event, which marks the first visit of a University President to the Coast in nine years, is scheduled to attract 1000 alumni, family and friends to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles...