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...Rule Breaker. But no one expected even Brosnan to write a book like The Long Season, a deft, wry account of his struggles as a pitcher last year. Traditionally, a baseball book is a sludge of cold porridge turned out by a ghostwriter for some superstar and dedicated to the notion that pro baseball is just good, clean American fun. Brosnan's book breaks all such rules. Not only did he write every word himself, but he strongly suggests that baseball players are something less than choir boys. He intimates that players like girls (and even do something about...
Jacques Offenbach's score for La Belle Helene has probably never been equalled by anybody except Offen-bach. It is "music so French," said James Agate, "that it needed a German Jew to write it:" irrepressible and irresistible music, subtly mischievous, knowing, deft, and inexhaustibly high-spirited. It alone is worth the price of admission to the Arts Center, which is very fortunate since it alone is nearly all that this venture has to recommend...
...sung by Licia Albanese and Charles K. L. Davis, Composer Taylor's score, shot through with Debussyan and Wagnerian echoes, still sounded deft, elegant, and admirably welded to the libretto's moods. Except in its ingenious weaving of French folk songs into the dream sequences, the score rarely pretends to be anything other than expert incidental music. But that is enough for Composer-Critic Taylor, who began his career as a piano-roll puncher, vaudeville entertainer and poster artist, is not embarrassed to recall that he narrated Walt Disney's Fantasia, and thinks that U.S. music needs...
...resident in the U.S. Akeo Watanabe, 41-year-old conductor of the Japan Philharmonic, is his nation's most gifted interpreter of modern scores; for Composers Recordings, Inc. he has now conducted eight modern American works by composers ranging from Aaron Copland to Halsey Stevens, giving them deft and assured readings...
...tough campaigner who managed General Eisenhower's 1952 preconvention campaign. In Gallup polls he runs third, behind Vice President Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller as the Republican choice for President. As U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for the past seven years, he has acquired national repute as the deft negotiator who talks tough to the Russians during world crises and generally comes out on the winning side. Lodge has a handicap that some Nixonites think will weigh against him if Kennedy is the Democratic presidential nominee: Lodge lost his Senate seat to Kennedy...