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...John McClellan left off. From the Senate hearings, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. compiled a 45-page list of charges, summoned Beck to a hearing before his brother vice presidents on the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council. Unanimously the 25 council members who heard the charges decided that "there is not the faintest question in our minds that Beck is completely guilty of violating the basic trade-union law that union funds are a sacred trust." Even this was not strong enough for George Meany. He needed an additional 20 minutes to tell the pudgy pride of Puget Sound "what I thought...
When the Chorus joined the small string group, the results were less good, as lack of rehearsal meant the strings were out of tune. Much of the Stabat Mater is written for soloists: the two girls who sang the parts had agreeable voices, but not the faintest idea of how to breathe to support their tone. Luckily, the general good humor of Pergolesi's music plus some spirited choral singing saved the work from falling apart. Nonetheless, it was the impressive individual performances rather than a smooth combination that made the concert worth-while...
...stone, brick, concrete and mosaic, and Britain is strewn with the ruins of their villas and fortifications. But the barbarian Anglo-Saxon bands that invaded Britain after the Roman legions withdrew in the 5th century lived in crude timber buildings that rotted away with the centuries, leaving only the faintest of traces. Last week Archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor reported the discovery and exploration of the biggest early Anglo-Saxon structure yet found in Britain-one of the rectangular great halls described in Beowulf, where a leader's thegns gathered to tell tall stories or quaff themselves torpid on mead...
...could be observed and get psychotherapy. Even under treatment. Eve Black "came out" and misbehaved occasionally. Batteries of psychological tests showed two distinct personalities, far more sharply differentiated in voice, speech, posture, mannerisms, handwriting and emotions than the most brilliant actress could have portrayed. Yet there was not the faintest suggestion of a mental illness resembling schizophrenia (the so-called "split personality"). Here were two rational personalities inhabiting the same body-though irresponsible Eve Black had some earmarks of a mild psychopath...
...fact that some critics seldom mention him ("It's as if they were embarrassed, or something"). His only comment on the Whitney Museum's great retrospective of his work, staged in 1950, was that the gallery always seemed crowded with pregnant women. Says he. with the faintest, iciest glimmer of a twinkle: "I guess they considered me a safe man to deal with...