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...Norman J. O'Connor, C.S.P., will act as commentator for the group, whose selections will include "The Thrill Is Gone," "Moanin'," "Azure," "That Old Feeling," "Rib Room," "Three Part Suite for Octet," "Rock Bottom," "Confirmation," "Cubano Chant," "Ambrosia," "Visa," "4:00 A.M.," and "Night Float...
...starting point of ferries making the two-mile run across the mighty river to Brazzaville in French Congo. Normally, the ferries operate only in daylight to avoid being swept downstream into the perilous rapids, but the terrified whites crowded onto paddle-wheel steamers, motorboats, skiffs-anything that would float-in their panicky flight...
...private talks with strangers, words like "dig," "bugged" and "gassed" tend to float unnaturally on the top of his conversation, but once his credentials are established, they disappear. Balding and gently unforceful in speech and manner, Bob Newhart seems less like a comedian than like a fellow who is about to ask if he may go downstairs and read the meter -which is the essence of his appeal. may like but do not require 76 trombones backing up a song. As of last week, seven of the 22 off-Broadway productions were musicals, getting along nicely without monumental sets, orchestra...
...often torn to the tatters of 'meaningful fact' by fine actors who were intent on showing that they could enter into each line and syllable and movement of the body, thus giving personality and modernity to every fact. The lines were no longer allowed to float out in the air as ritual victories...
...does not look like skin but like a lunar landscape. Despite frequent stretches of dullness, the New Realist writers are sometimes fascinating because they have moved away from the facile psychology and sociology that filled so much fiction in the '30s and '40s; their characters seem to float through the vast emptiness of society like planets close to collision...