Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concert opened with a vigorous performance of Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso for four solo violins. David Hurwitz, Ronald Hathaway, Katherine Gratwick, and Ruth Miller performed the solo parts with consistent vitality and precision, if not perfect intonation. Although the contrast between the ensemble and the concertino group was not as great as it might have been in a larger orchestra, the string section demonstrated once again its brilliance and fullness, while Mr. Senturia emphasized the formal power and relentlessness of the concerto...
...Latter-Day Roman. As SACEUR, Norstad is a great contrast to his tireless, hard-driving predecessor. "When General Gruenther wanted to know how many seats there were in an auditorium, everybody trembled; now we just tremble when there is something worth trembling about." The modesty that was one of Norstad's "faults" at West Point is still with him. When he was first elevated to SACEUR, he tried to continue his old practice of slipping into SHAPE unobtrusively by a side door, abandoned it only after his public information officer firmly told him that he must use the front...
Tidbits & Optimism. By contrast with Hagerty, his new associate press secretary, Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton (TIME, Nov. 18), is not a party to top-level Administration decisions-and not an experienced reporter. Though disgruntled newsmen accused Pressagent Wheaton of holding out on them when she protested her inability to answer their questions, the fact was that Vice President Nixon, Sherman Adams and other White House aides neither informed her of the real nature of Ike's illness nor consulted her on the abstrusely worded report in which Ike's doctors tactlessly took credit for being right in their...
...York west to Minneapolis and south to New Orleans, it competes for 80% of its traffic with giants of the airline business-American Airlines and Eastern Air Lines. Against such rugged competition, profits are lower; yet the other lines have choice long hops to balance their route structure. By contrast, Capital shuttles back and forth between cities as close as 50 miles apart, acting almost as a businessman's commuter line with all the extra expenses of many stops...
Hamlet (RCA Victor, 2 LPs). Sir John Gielgud, as a pensive, polished Dane, takes up arms against a sea of troubles with the able help of London's Old Vic Company, which is always impressive, if sometimes too elegant-sounding and static. In contrast to Sir Laurence Olivier's brasher, more youthful performance in 1948, Gielgud's version is resigned, traditional, declamatory; but it emerges as a memorable reading. All in all, from the creepy wind sighings and distant bells on the battlements of Elsinore in the first scene to the swordplay and slaughter of the last...