Word: dourness
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...from U.S. surpluses. However, Washington has been noncommittal on $150 million worth of grain needed this year. Will Moscow supply it? Nasser was plainly uncertain. Escorting Kosygin around Aswan last week, Nasser passed up an ideal opportunity for an anti-U.S. tirade, which could not have pleased his dour Soviet guest. However, Egypt's leader was full of praise for "U.A.R.-Soviet solidarity." Then they went off to see the sights. At the High Dam and the Soviet-sponsored projects, Kosygin was largely the unsmiling inspector general from the home office. He was received well enough-except...
...younger musicians. So many people are now gone-Kreisler, Toscanini, Rachmaninoff-who never had students. This is a great loss." It is also a sad fact that few celebrated performers have much interest in teaching-and fewer still have any talent for it (Rachmaninoff, for example, was a dour, retiring man, hardly cut out to be the Mr. Chips of the keyboard). Fortunately for a few lucky cellists, however, Piatigorsky, 61, has both the interest and the talent. By virtue of his superior musicianship, his good humor and infectious love for his art, he is one of the greatest cello...
When the Communists set out to rename the revamped London Daily Worker, British wags offered suggestions: London Pravda, the Daily Directive, the Red Queen, the Daily Pink, the Swinging Plodder, Hammer & Piffle. Not amused, the dour Communists last week brought out their new paper under the innocuous name Morning Star...
CACTUS FLOWER. Sex farces are to the French what fairy tales are to children. In this version, the dour duckling (Lauren Bacall) becomes a swan just in time to tame a big bad wolf (Barry Nelson). With all the laughs, no one seems to care whether or not they live happily ever after...
CACTUS FLOWER. Sex farces are to the French what fairy tales are to children. In this version, the dour duckling (Lauren Bacall) becomes a swan just in time to tame a big bad wolf (Barry Nelson). With all the laughs, no one seems to care if they live happily ever after...