Word: finch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medley relay: 1 Yale (Boni, Yurow, Finch, Austin) Time...
Everyone from a canorous finch to a detestitute soldier sings on the ride from Venice to Padua, and an extraordinary passenger list it must have been to supply twenty madrigals on a thirty mile trip. Even more extraordinary was the representation that the two women and four men in the sextet gave of characters in the boat. As Venetian fishermen, they echoed each other with subtle dynamic control. Director and basso Piero Cavalli led one texture smoothly into another. A Madrigale afettuoso, a bit too obvious in intent to touch the modern listener properly, followed fine contrapuntal fun on simple...
...banners proclaiming in plain English: WE WILL GIVE OUR LIVES FOR IRIAN BARAT. No less clear to Western correspondents was the combat unreadiness of ill-fed, ill-disciplined, ill-conditioned infantrymen who, as one put it, "seemed exhausted after a 30-minute demonstration that would scarcely have tired a Finch College hockey team...
Adapted from a novel published posthumously by Wilfred Fienburgh, M.P., the film tells the story of an able, middle-aged Laborite from a Midlands mill town (Peter Finch) who arrives at a climactic (and climacteric) moment in his career. Re-elected with a thumping majority, he expects to be offered a Cabinet post, but for no clear reason finds himself quietly scuppered. The rejection rankles. A child of poverty, the hero has unhappily contracted one of the more dangerous diseases of deficiency: galloping ambition. He finds biological consolation by attaching himself to a gorgeous platinum blonde (Mary Peach) about half...
...trouble looms for Finch when he gets his own "Chinese provincial" executive hot suite as V.P. of advertising. But when he makes silver-dollar eyes at himself in the executive-washroom mirror, and sings I Believe in You, a passionate aria of self-love, it is clear that there will be no doom at the top for Finch...