Word: deft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Summer Players certainly fulfills and overfulfills these minimum criteria. Most of the actors both knew their lines and were able to speak them quite clearly. And, of course, not a few of them are a good deal better than that. As Rosalind, Jane Quigley is lively, deft, and confident. If her manly colloquialisms as the youth Ganymede occasionally savor more of the Bronx than of the Home Counties, why it is all spirited and very amusing...
Died. Nicholas W. Orloff, 66, Russian prince and army officer who fled the Bolsheviks in 1920, became a U.S. citizen, served as chief United Nations interpreter until 1955, was the deft unofficial translator for the American Broadcasting Co. during Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour; of a heart attack; in Oyster...
Mark DeVoto's Introduction and Allegro, which the orchestra, bless them, performed twice, is an attractive and intelligent, if occasionally somewhat disjoined, piece of music. Mr. DeVoto writes with easy assurance; his deft, varied and imaginative scoring and an evident command of conventional forms allow him to experiment at leisure with the work's harmonies and tonalities. This is a relaxed and clever style reminiscent, if anything, of the early Ernest Bloch--I have in mind particularly, his Concerto grosso for Orchestra...
...Campalans, Gallimard pulled out the stops. Needing a few sketches from J.T.C.'s "middle period," the publisher asked Aub to fill the gap. In moments, on the back of office stationery, he did. A big first printing of 5,000 is selling well, aided by Gallimard's deft exploitation of France's latest art world celebrity. Had he lived, J.T.C. would have been gratified...
...Broadway Carnival! The magic world of a Continental circus comes alive in this pleasant and colorful reprise of the movie Lili. Anna Maria Alberghetti sings engagingly as the waif and Jerry Orbach is a deft puppetmaster, but nimble Pierre Olaf tops the show in a jubilant dance...