Word: counterpointing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest drama from real life, I Get Along Without You Very Well, he managed more persuasive casting: Hoagy Carmichael and Walter Winchell playing themselves. The story was a treacly tale about a search for an anonymous lyricist, but Hoagy's sangfroid and Pommery piano made a nice counterpoint to Walter's Winchellisms ("Human interest always has a heart"), some of which were not even in the script. As an ABC publicist explained it: Columnist Winchell at 60 "has no trouble learning his lines, but he prefers to study their meanings and rephrase them...
...this symphonic reconstruction of time past, there is a soloist: young Rufus Follet, who plays a lighthearted, vagrant air in counterpoint to the heavier orchestration. Death, to Rufus, is scarcely more complex than the other riddles flung at him each waking day-the nagging puzzle of why he should not speak about the black color of a Negro maid's skin; or why the older boys on their way to school solemnly ask his name and then go into fits of inexplicable laughter; or why a woman will suddenly become so very...
Syria. Dulles put the current diplomatic point and counterpoint about Syria into proper perspective by recalling Russia's failures in persistent attempts to dominate the strategic, oil-rich Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. In 1940 the Communists went after a spheres-of-influence deal with Ally Adolf Hitler that would give them control "in the general direction of the Persian Gulf"; in 1945-46 the Communists prolonged their wartime occupation of Azerbaijan in northern Iran, were forced out by U.N. pressure; between 1946 and 1949 the Communists sparked the Greek civil war, saw it fizzle out; in 1955 they...
...concerts anywhere in the world." Audiences heard the 42-man orchestra wheel through freshly performed American music, including the wisecracking, four-movement Divertimento Burlesca by Los Angeles' Benjamin Lees, 32, and the sprightly Three Songs for Bass and Orchestra by Chicago's late Edward Collins. As a counterpoint to such commissioned modern works, Conductor Johnson offered some elegant, rarely performed echoes of the 18th century; the Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, by Johann Christian Bach (youngest son of J.S.B.), the Partita in A Major for Viola and Orchestra, by French Composer Louis de Caix d'Hervelois...
Bagged in Manhattan by a London Sunday Dispatch interviewer, sad-eyed old Satirist Aldous Huxley, 63, rhapsodized about his Hollywood hermitage, where "foxes, possum, raccoons, even coyotes, are always trotting across my terrace," lamented the pointless counterpoint of the brave new world. On Manhattan: "The psychological cost of living is rather high in New York. I find the streets horrifying and spend most of my time in my hotel room in a sort of fool's paradise." On television: "Who needs that little screen with disgusting little grey figures hopping around?" On writing: "It's getting...