Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally got around to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The piano transcription was written by Keyboard Demon Franz Liszt, meaning that both hands are too busy for shenanigans. Gould plays it in respectful dedication to both Liszt and Beethoven. The Fifth is largely free of Liszt's frequent pianistic bombastics and remarkably faithful to the original-save for an occasional missing dissonance. "Liszt removed them," says Gould, "to safeguard his reputation as the man who never pulled a false note...
...them is bold and consistent. Given an almost unnaturally broad and shallow stage, he has chosen to arrange almost every scene as a balanced static composition, varied only at moments of true dramatic necessity. The effect seems to me to be entirely intentional, and it works splendidly in the frequent crowd scenes, when the groupings suggest at once the linear composition of classical art, and the luxury of a Cinemascope biblical epic. This is due in good part to Olga Liepmann's costumes, which make up in variety and color whatever they may lack in real period style...
...despite Sack's frequent protestations against being stereotyped, his individual theatres have taken on their own personalities. A grand tour of the Sack line would have to begin with the Beacon Hill. Hidden away by itself on the north end of Tremont Street, across from the burial ground of King's Chapel, lies the most risque' of the Sack Theatres. Perhaps because its marquee is removed from sight of the proper old ladies who chase pigeons off the Common, the Beacon Hill was the first to specialize in the now ubiquitous "recommended for mature audiences" film. Ever since Tom Jones...
...Frank sounds slightly beleaguered, it is only understandable. All winter long, he and other TV newsmen have been warding off a chilly gale of complaints from Senators, Congressmen, city officials, policemen and viewers in general. The most frequent charge leveled by the critics is that television, with its vast reach and visual impact, is in a sense the germ carrier that spreads the plague of riots across the U.S. The question, in short, is whether the sight of a Harlem youth hurling a brick through a store window and shouting "Black Power!" induces a ghetto teen ager in Detroit...
...seems as menacing as it is silent. Yet the family ignores it--except when, from time to time, they are kicking or beating or trying to strangle it. It never speaks, never makes a sound, but crawls on the floor and submits without so much as a sound to frequent assaults...