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...chamber orchestra. Its nucleus seems solid, especially the flutes, oboes, and several stands of strings. The remaining "passengers," which impede both precision and morale, should either rehearse more frequently or be eliminated. Also, strengths of both musicians and conductor would be best revealed in lively, small scale works. Fen it, was the exciting, soloistic sections that gained the audience's enthusiasm Friday night...
Over dinner at La Fenétre, the British disarmament delegation's residence near Geneva, Foreign Secretary Lord Home tried a new way of explaining the need for inspection and verification to Russia's Andrei Gromyko. "After all," said Lord Home, "one never knows what has happened when you read the seismograph signals. It might be an earthquake, or it could be a bomb, or it could be Mr. Molotov falling downstairs." Gromyko stared gravely at Home for a long moment, then replied: "Mr. Molotov is not fissionable material...
Sitzfleisch & Fen. Inevitably, the book has faults. The authors might have been more critical of some sources and more revealing in etymology. For instance, no attempt is made to trace the origin of that wonder word "viggerish." There are other omissions; how did they ever miss such expressions as on the q.t., go pound sand (meaning "The hell with you, bub"), sitzfleisch (perseverance), penobscot (falsie), fen (well known to every boy who ever played marbles), screech (rotgut), or that masterpiece of imaginative profanity, the blivit (a term of personal description usually defined...
After a pre-game show by the Harvard Band, the Boston Red Sox won the Fen-way Park opener yesterday, beating the Washington Senators, 7 to 3. Dick Gernert produced a home run for the winners in the game, which was marred by several errors...
...hard to view riots in New Haven with the same alarm as those in Nyasaland. The natives of the Gothic fen seem to have no objective so clear as the Africans, though they do perhaps possess their own inscrutable reasons for breaking up a premature St. Patrick's Day celebration. Spring may be muddy in Cambridge, but it must be especially lonely in New Haven, and the Yalies probably need to sublimate their seasonal hormonal energy...