Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burlesca by Los Angeles' Benjamin Lees, 32, and the sprightly Three Songs for Bass and Orchestra by Chicago's late Edward Collins. As a counterpoint to such commissioned modern works, Conductor Johnson offered some elegant, rarely performed echoes of the 18th century; the Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, by Johann Christian Bach (youngest son of J.S.B.), the Partita in A Major for Viola and Orchestra, by French Composer Louis de Caix d'Hervelois...
...airport to wish her luck. When she returned a winner, Idlewild was awash with people. Countless acquaintances suddenly remembered how they had helped her in the past, and crowded close to share her success. The big city, which had offered Althea's parents a cramped railroad flat in which to raise their children, honored her with a ticker-tape parade. And people breathlessly wanted to know how it had felt to shake hands with Queen Elizabeth at Wimbledon and what they had said to each other (The Queen: "It was a very enjoyable match, but you must have been...
...With his gallery's humidifiers not yet in action. McEwen found that the dangerously low humidity was stretching the priceless canvases so taut that "they were ready to explode." To fight the dry air, McEwen and his Rhodesian sculptress wife, Cecilia, night after night dashed between their .flat and the gallery to drape damp towels over the frames of the stretching masterpieces. When asked about the effect of this do-it-yourself humidifying on the canvases, McEwen had a ready answer: "Emergencies demand drastic measures. That was all we could do. Anyway we saved the day-or rather...
Half Slave. The crowd was strangely quiet, almost as chilly as the Finns who looked Khrushchev over in Helsinki last June. As the inevitable flaxen-haired girls skipped forward with their whopping bouquets, little groups here and there tried to spark pro-Soviet chants, but their efforts fell flat. Hastily, a band struck up a tune, the old nationalist Prussian Glory march. As Khrushchev finally launched into a speech, a husky Negro, resplendent in billowing orange tribal robes, burst through police lines, capered up to the platform and reached out at him. Kicked and pummeled back into the crowd...
...buildings and its majestic mountain backdrop. The solution is an ingenious example of contemporary Air Force Gothic. Rising tall and bright in its sheath of man-made aluminum against the surrounding peaks of the Rockies, the chapel stands in solitary splendor, its 19 spires soaring in contrast above the flat-roofed buildings spread out on the campus. It is built on two levels, has three naves. On the lower level rear is the Jewish section, seating 100; at the front the Catholic section, seating 500; on top the 900-seat Protestant section...