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...well organized, i.e., sufficiently chaotic), Wilson actually indulged in the old-fashioned technique of wit. Conducting a very competent chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet, viola, cello, percussion), Wilson produced an observable change of tempo within the very first of the five sections: an event totally unexpected in view of the leaden, unchanging tempi of the preceding work on the program. In the succeeding movements, Wilson created intimate subensembles and experimented with their sonorities; e.g., he combined tuned drums, viola pizzicato, and flute. Of the student composers on the program, Wilson alone managed to go beyond cleverness in working out details...
East Berlin resembled the weather-leaden grey skies, bone-chilling wind, a damp slurry of mud and snow. The city was dark, and the shops were sparsely stocked. Only sign of the holiday season was the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market) set up near the Sportsplatz. Here a seedy collection of carnival rides attempted gaiety to the music of a prewar Harry James record. Pathetic crowds surrounded the few booths selling candied apples or thin bits of herring on hard rolls. Missing was the pungent smell of broiling sausage, for an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease has made meat, and especially...
Seldom in history has a diplomatic crisis been so well advertised in advance. From Moscow came leaden hints that only the U.S. elections on Nov. 6 were holding up the next round of the Berlin struggle-a round that just might bring Nikita Khrushchev to the U.N. and might also bring the long-threatened peace treaty for East Germany this fall...
...finest opportunity to discuss the domestic implications of the cold war. If there is an organic connection between the arms economy, America's anarchic response to automation and unemployment, this is Mr. Hughes' chance to show it. If he can prove none, he must rely on leaden slogans and intangible fear...
...irritated. When a photographer thoughtlessly asked him to move aside so he could get a shot of U.S. Open Champ Jack Nicklaus, the usually affable Arnie flushed angrily, growled, "Hell, no." Exhausted from his record-smashing triumph fortnight ago in the British Open, his feathery putting touch turned leaden. Palmer wound up tied for 17th with an 8-over-par 288. Just about everybody had at least one bad round-all but Gary Player. Sacrificing distance for accuracy, Player switched from a driver to a No. 3 wood for tee shots, began a methodical assault on par. He shot...