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...more than Homeric lentor. almost as though it were inching along in one of those venerable jalopies that still wheeze across the hot pink flats between El Paso and San Antonio, the camera moves for almost 3½ hours through what at first appears to be a flat and featureless tale...
...most colorful contemporary composers. The compositions on exhibit are his lyrical Andante for Strings, his Concertino for Trumpet, String Orchestra and Piano, which combines a parade-ground knowledge of the trumpet with a bouncing sense of fun, and his Piano Concerto, which opens with an inferno of featureless percussion and sizzling .strings, continues with a slow movement of steamy mystery, and winds up with a recurring Latin American dance rhythm. Eeriest moments come when a flute seems to swell and shrink like a small-scale fire siren...
...Bebe Barron, it could hardly sound more appropriate. Its basic elements are a kind of trickling-water sound; a zipping effect, as if somebody were running his thumbnail along a comb; a high, ominous thrumming, something like the sound telegraph wires make when the pole is struck; a frightful, featureless roaring; and an effect that repeatedly swoops up to a point of release and then breaks and starts over...
...prose, which shows its simple structure like a field-stripped carbine, why this book has been bought in tens of thousands by Germans. There are few names, and even the scene is one of those anonymous "inhabited places" that appeared in Russian war communiqués, as featureless as its invaders. Russians and Germans blur in this cartoon of death. The sense of death-in-life is all the stronger for the author's calculated casualty-report style; the loss of a barrel of a machine gun has the same weight as the death of a crazed corporal...
...press bureau in Moscow, and very few employ their own authors." Even when they do, the writers so closely ape Moscow that they write "like twins whom it is difficult to tell apart." The magazines are as bad as the newspapers. Most of them are "dull and featureless." Even the overriding concern of the Russian press with serving the party line fails, says Kommunist. "Propaganda articles are as a rule devoted to the past," and filled with official statistics and statements strung together by writers who are "superficial dilettante journalists...