Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Serge Koussevitzky played on the Boston with Slavic ardor, kindling it to its best efforts in Russian works or in the epic grandeurs of Beethoven and Sibelius. Charles Munch tuned its voice to the French composers, infusing it with a certain Gallic grace. Leinsdorf, 50, is Viennese-born but internationally bred, and he will presumably make the Boston speak a more international tongue-well-modulated, clear and precise. Although a great orchestra does not change its accent overnight, the Boston played with wonderful clarity and precision last week, responding to Leinsdorf's tick-tock beat with hair-trigger reflexes...
...kinds of good things must be said for the present production. It is a delight, especially in the pocket-sized theatre of the Hotel Bostonian, decked out in appropriate Gallic style. With Offenbach in the background and designer Robert Wells' curtain a la Toulouse-Lautrec, it out-Montmartres Montmartre, all very pleasantly. The excellent staging of director Alan J. Levitt--who, by the way, is obviously well acquainted with the French touch--overcomes the problem of space, which could be acute if any of his fine company were claustrophobic. And it is a fine company. Robin Ramsay, as La Brige...
...examination was conducted with Gallic thoroughness. Editor Max led off by consulting his old friend and former employer, Dr. George Gallup, director of Princeton's American Institute of Public Opinion, deployed a journalistic crew of seven in accordance with Gallup's advice. All told, Réalités' writers asked 25,000 questions in more than 3,000 interviews. On the Eastern seaboard, Reporter Pierre Marchant spent two weeks talking to 60 U.S. educators, business executives, politicians and clergymen. He posed to them all the single leading, loaded question: "Is there anything about the U.S. that...
...selected Galesburg, Ill. (which was crowned "an all-American city" by the National Municipal League in 1957), sent Reporter Danielle Hunebelle there to spend three weeks in the home of Galesburg Car Dealer Norman H. Weaver and his wife and four children. Mystified by the Weavers' un-Gallic ways, Reporter Hunebelle let them do their own talking, stitched together a series of candid Weaver monologues that runs for eleven pages in the magazine. She got to like them, though their pious earnestness and indifference to food were trying. "Generally speaking," she said, "they have a lot to learn...
...great an influence on the novel as the Symbolists were on poetry, but for more than five years they have been stirring excitement, adulation, outrage and despair. Admirers hail them as bold innovators who are breaking ground for the fiction of the future. Alarmists warn that if Gallic logic is pursued to its usual extreme, Neo-Realists' views and practices may lead the novel to wither away entirely...