Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bass boomed, "U UE U UE," only to be interrupted by a chorus which periodically burst out with "Agatta-Gatta-Gatta." These sounds so unnerved the Mannheim audience that it responded with heartfelt "pfuis!", and an incensed reviewer described it as possibly "the worst opera ever written." By contrast, some Berlin spectators last week not only found the work "interesting" but even professed to find meaning (the difficulties nations have understanding each other) in the opera high spot, an exchange between an American-sounding tenor and a Russian-sounding bass...
...week. Cameras behind the scenes of Manhattan's main post office caught the overwhelming frustration of an archaic system, dispirited employees and a staggering, endless load of work. They also recorded pent-up grievances of clerks, letter carriers and their boss, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, presented the contrast of smooth modernity in the mails of Switzerland and The Netherlands and such private U.S. businesses as United Parcel Service, explored the problems of whether and how the post office should pay its own way-instead of losing $2,000,000 a day. Murrow gave both sides of such thorny...
...dance much of the documentary drabness out of the story, most of the sociological shock into it. He is least successful in a ballet where the ill-fated lovers-a former Jet and the sister of a Shark-dream of a happy, peaceful Unpromised Land. Seeking the brightest possible contrast, the ballet has very little of Robbins and too much sweetness and lighting...
However, Hisimatsu noted, our individual selves are always limited and given form by the fact that they are distinguishable from the selves of other people. And true Zen self-consciousness is infinitely pluralistic, in contrast to individualistic, he noted...
...must make up his mind whether he is too be a folk-singer like his father or a pop singer of the order of Billy Eckstine. He is unhappily caught between the two genres, with talent enough for either. He sings well, and his naivete comes as a pleasant contrast to his father, one of the least naive men around...