Word: decibels
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...sensational slimming has caused much shaking of heads and predictions of vocal perdition. But the newly glamorous Maria, thin, relaxed and even daring to taste the pleasures of the idle rich (she sang all night in a Vienna cafe last summer, for sheer pleasure), has lost not a decibel of power, a note of range, a mote of sweetness...
...World War II (he served in the Welch Regiment and in Intelligence), Powell has resumed writing a series of novels in which he looks back with wry hindsight on the middling years of his life and on the causes of the discontents gnawing away at his class. The low-decibel tone in which he has written his eleven books may explain why he has almost escaped attention in the U.S. The earlier installments of this series (A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market) never sold as many as 5,000 copies in the U.S. The latest installment...
...which contributes heavily-through Howdy Doody, Pinky Lee, et al. -to the high decibel nonsense that TV calls "children's programs." indulged last week in a novel, if mild, experiment in selfcriticism. It made public a report of its Children's Program Review Committee, which took a generally dim view of the network's kid shows...
...since 1950, the eastern corner of the French Pyrenees has bloomed with music. The two-week-long festival in the little (pop. 4.400) town of Prades is too rare and delicate a blossoming to be enjoyed through the sunglasses of ordinary tourists; instead of 90-piece orchestras or 100-decibel choruses to remind a man that he is getting his money's worth, the music is small and wrought with loving care for some of the most passionately musical audiences in the world. And the focus of it all is the adored and venerated master-Spanish Cellist Pablo Casals...
...like their job, partly because the work is steady and requires no traveling, partly because the Dixieland market has leveled off. The pay? "Ah," growls Red Allen happily, "the Metropole don't retard on the loot." Nor do the boys retard on the noise. Whatever the number, the decibel is mightier than the dolce. Dixieland's adolescent nights, with their soulful solos, apparently are lost in the dim past, now to be replaced mostly by steamed-up, middle-aged antics. When the two bands get together for a jam session, the four chandeliers have been known to shake...