Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like its Cake Box tobacco, over the years Leavitt and Peirce has retained a flavor all its own. Founded in 1884 to serve the Harvard man, it immediately attained primacy as an exclusive gathering place for upperclassmen. Around its pot-belly stove pipe smokers gathered to experiment with tobacco mixtures and help the proprietors perfect the Cake Box brand that brought them fame. Today, Leavitt's struggles to maintain its old intimate atmosphere. In a world of Shultes and Hav-a-Tampas, it still conceives of itself as a gentleman's smoke shop...
...first and third movements were darkly pensive, shifty, and reflecting Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave as through a flawed windowpane. The scherzo thrummed along at top speed, flinging itself into several swirling climaxes before its few minutes were over. The finale opened with a grumpy subject, developed an Oriental flavor as the winds spun harsh-voiced arabesques, then fell into a heavy-booted Russian two-step. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos whipped the fine performance to an uproarious end that brought a storm of applause, a few cheers, and an approving comment from Soviet U.N. Delegate Andrei Vishinsky...
...Tenth has the solid virtues of sturdy orchestration and an unmistakable Russian flavor. However, its reception at its Leningrad premiere ten months ago was almost as divided as Manhattan...
Chabrier: Seven Pieces for Piano (Ginette Doyen; Westminster). Fiery performances of music that is attractive enough for more frequent hearings than it gets. Composed in 1860 and 1891, some pieces have a fine Spanish flavor and a few French flourishes as well...
Yield to the Night has an authentic flavor because Novelist Henry is something of an expert on life in English prisons, having herself served an eight-month term in 1950 after being convicted of knowingly cashing forged checks (she pleaded, and still pleads, not guilty). She is 40, pretty, a cousin of Bertrand Russell, and a great-great-grandniece of Sir Robert Peel.* In prison Author Henry was called "the lidy," and told, "You talk lovely, but it don't get you far, do it, if you end up here?" But she turned her experience to good account with...