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...tender, contented, and safely married. Every song was almost without flaw, as in a languorous dream, rich and edgeless as whipped cream, and always giving a hint of something a little more respectable than a mere pop tune, as the massed strings soared to the discrete pulsation of a harp or a guitar. And sometimes the music actually was more respectable, as when it was an orchestral arrangement of an operatic aria. This was the music of Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, a swarthy Italian-turned-Briton who five years ago zoomed to the top of the "mood music" heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Massed Strings | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...before the operation had dreamed of winning against the President (by cutting into the Republican farm states, seizing at least one heavily urban state and winning back the South), were certain to place new hope in this arithmetic now. Moreover, if Ike runs, Democratic campaigners will be tempted to harp on the health issue. At a Democratic policy conference in Des Moines last week, Oklahoma's U.S. Senator Robert Kerr tried the tune: "There is danger and insecurity in uncertainty. The country already has suffered enough under a part-time Chief Executive. We know we cannot hope for security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Politics | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

When O'Casey's mind leaves the theater, he brightens perceptibly. He loves national flags-except for that of Ireland which "should replace the sickly-looking tricolor of green, white and yellow" with "the old flag, a lovely one, of the green field with the harp in its center." In "The Power of Laughter: Weapon Against Evil," O'Casey voices his deepest conviction: "Laughter is wine for the soul . . . Once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living ... It is odd how many seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crackerbarrel O'Casey | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp (Decca). One of Debussy's last compositions in a topnotch performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Year's Best Records | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...right answer; and 4) "Cold-Sweat music," to match the audience mood as the contestant broods inside the illuminated box during the 30 seconds allowed before he tries for the big money. According to Leyden, the best suspense music is supplied by muted brasses, and combinations like the piccolo, harp and xylophone. A piece like Ravel's Bolero is best for times of tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Jan. 2, 1956 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

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