Word: gongli
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...stage show-that is anything but just another overpromoted metropolitan gyp. The customers are paying for spectacorn, and the Music Hall stage is equipped to give it to them 144 ft. wide and 67 ft. deep. The organ, with 375 stop tablets, can sound like everything from a Chinese gong to a glockenspiel, and vibrates so profoundly that it probably shows up on seismographs in the Soviet Union. The fixed lighting system, with a 4,3O5-key control board, is still one of the most advanced in the world, making possible spectacular fireworks and the fondly remembered (1959) burning...
Daiei, a serious company that also made Gate of Hell, Ugetsu, and Rashomon, is trying to do something more than ring the box-office gong. Scores of Buddhist monks and scholars have been hired to guide Director Kenji Misumi through the life of the young Indian prince who, in the 6th century B.C., turned away from worldly pleasure to seek enlightenment of the soul. The advisers are trying to keep the sex in balance with the substance, the taste with the tasty; and Buddha himself -played by 23-year-old Rising Son Kojiro Hongo-will only appear in the flesh...
...Budiardjo and Winarno, two Javanese musicians, will join a group of Harvard students tonight in a gamelan concert in Paine Hall at 8:30 p.m. The gamelan is a Javanese orchestral unit of xylophone, gong, and string type instruments...
...Jordan flatly declared, "Far too many students are applying to relatively few colleges." Only a week ago, President Bunting echoed his sentiments: "I am not convinced that Radcliffe is the only college in the world." The quantity of applications has forced Radcliffe into the unusual situation of beating the gong for other excellent liberal arts schools across the country...
...First Gong. The plan must still be sold to the Northern Rhodesians, and that will be harder. Only the moderate multiracial Liberal Party, which stands to win a good number of the swing seats, endorsed the scheme. Kaunda and his fellow nationalists might eventually cooperate, on the theory that the new constitution is at least a big step forward. But that will still leave the toughest nut to crack-the white settlers. In the Northern Rhodesian capital of Lusaka, the five elected members of the governing executive council, all members of Welensky's United Federal Party, resigned in protest...