Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Growing Madness." Next day Gromyko called in not the Western ambassadors but the world press, and before its representatives he dropped a propaganda bombshell. Gromyko charged the U.S. with sending Strategic Air Command jet bombers, loaded with nuclear bombs, "across the Arctic areas in the direction of the borders of the Soviet Union." He announced that the U.S.S.R. was submitting the charge to the U.N. Security Council as "a dangerous provocation against peace." Basis for complaint: a lurid, you-are-there style of report by United Press President Frank Bartholomew about how SAC's bombers had been launched...
...practicing C.P.A. until 1933, Producer Bloomgarden has a good record for picking hits (The Lark, Death of a Sales man, Command Decision), but he has had his flops too. His basic criterion for picking: "I have to like it. It's a terrible thing to do a show just because you think it's going to make a million bucks...
...Roofs is that Clair, in an attempt to create figures of unmistakable humanity, forgot to make them sufficiently funny or fascinating. They are often mysterious, but that is not the same thing. The hero is a street-singer--and a good one--but even a good street-singer can command undivided attention for only half an hour...
...recitative and aria da capo turn up all over the place with genuinely satiric twists, as well as cadences which would have sent Rossini right out of the auditorium. The proceedings were further disrupted by the intrusion of a full-fledged jazz number. Mr. Perkins has an especially disarming command of dissonance, which he uses tastefully and moderately to underline the humorous aspects of the music...
...conductor of both works was Allan Miller, who stayed in firm command even when the going got rough. Among the instrumentalists, Joel Lazar's flute, Ralph Lane's french horn and Mr. Perkins' piano solos were particularly effective...