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...more delicate strains went out of fashion two centuries ago, Bream has a special capacity to enliven the courtly archaisms of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. This is not only a matter of musicianship but of an instinctive sympathy for the older period's flavor, style, and more restrained decibel level. He reads about the era voraciously, fancies that he might have felt right at home in it. "I strum one chord on the lute," he says wistfully, "and I go back 400 years...
...time being, though, the debate raged at such high-decibel levels that Westmoreland might well have yearned for the less complicated hostilities of the war zone during his visit. Almost from the moment he flew in from Hawaii to an Air Force base near West Point, he was caught in the political crossfire. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright charged that he had been brought back to "shut up" dissent on the war. The New York Post called his trip a "search-and-destroy" mission laid on by the President against the antiwar faction. Complained Minnesota...
...Chinese ripped their petitions to shreds. Soviet slogans were tidily lettered and said nothing much more inflammatory than "Shame on the clique of Mao Tse-tung." In the battle, Russia showed superior electronic prowess. When the Chinese inside the Moscow embassy began bleating anti-Soviet polemics over their low-decibel bullhorns, the Russians wheeled up two sound trucks and drowned the Chinese...
...LUCY SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Lucy advertises for "quiet, dignified companion" and a librarian (Carol Burnett) answers, in the first of a two-parter. When Carol arrives, she turns out to be anything but a mousy bookworm, and her real high-living, high-decibel self is exposed...
...Decibel Gap. By contrast with Maverick Shapp, Yale-trained Attorney Shafer is a dutiful, if undistinguished, party pro; he served two terms as a state senator before running with William Scranton-who cannot succeed himself-in 1962. While Shapp is a wispy, almost Chaplinesque figure, Shafer, son of a Protestant minister, is a craggy-faced, sandy-haired, 6-ft. 2-in. ex-athlete who won nine letters at Allegheny College to go with his Phi Beta Kappa key. Lawyer Shafer is as taciturn as Tycoon Shapp is talkative. Shafer "comes on like Mount Rushmore," as one Pennsylvanian puts...