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...Collegium displayed the polished technique that has become the hallmark of Adams's choruses. Their tone was solid and well-blended; their diction was a model of properly popped consonants. Yet the performance didn't really get off the ground until well into the second half. Like a sonnet reader who calls attention to each iamb, Adams tended to emphasize the repetitive Baroque rhythms at the expense of larger phrases. Part of this problem can be traced to the widespread malady of the pick-up orchestra. This was the usual random group of instrumentalists thrown together to accompany a university...
...Alec Guinness is rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and doing it cautiously, for his February 1976 television performance with Genevieve Bujold in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The show's sponsor, Hallmark Cards, is still aching from the karate chop rendered unto Winston Churchill by Richard Burton on the eve of his starring role in The Gathering Storm. Shaw wrote that Caesar "bought men with words," but Sir Alec, talking about the play, sounded like a translation from Latin: "Anything that is reasonably civilized is likely to have an underlying wit." Somewhat...
Kissinger had discussed his program with various heads of state on his latest country-spanning diplomatic mission. All had responded favorably, except for Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. A reserve system would preclude the kind of secrecy-shrouded, bargain-hunting raids on the Western wheat market that have become a hallmark of Soviet trade. The Russians, who guard agricultural intelligence as a state secret, are also hesitant to begin sharing crop information. A high State Department official noted the irony of this ideological role reversal: "We are talking about planning while the Communists are using our old market methods to meet...
...this year's Information about Radcliffe College for prospective students there appears a picture of a student and instructor with the caption: "Individual attention from professors is a hallmark of a Harvard-Radcliffe education...
RHODA: What am I? I'm not married, I'm not engaged-I'm not even pinned. I bet Hallmark doesn 't even have a card...