Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musicals by: slick, amiable and derivative. With a plot line borrowed from the Wilder-Diamond film The Apartment and a structure copied from How to Succeed in Business With out Really Trying, the show is not so much viewed as deja vu'd. While Jerry Orbach will probably light up Broadway from this show onwards, his performance is not equal to his acting in Scuba Duba...
...budget, the group approved the largest defense appropriation in Soviet peacetime history: 17.7 billion rubles ($19.7 billion). Actually, that figure represents only a fraction of the actual outlay. It covers only the actual housekeeping costs of the Soviet Union's military forces, ammunition purchases and the acquisition of light conventional weapons. The Soviets routinely disguise under other headings their spending for important weaponry. Outlays for nuclear-weapon research and production that run into the billions are hidden under appropriations for the Ministry of Medium Machinery Production. Similarly, the expenditures for new aircraft and warships are dispersed among budgets...
Miss Bavan, singing, handled the dramatic parts quite well, but she did not prove to have the light-but-searing, crisp touch needed for the whimsical bits...
...light of this fact, there are two simple but important economic concepts which the Committee on Houses should have taken into account. The first is the idea of social cost vs. social benefit. I would suggest that what the University's purse is losing monetarily, the University's students are more than making up for in non-monetary gains. On a pragmatic level, the bus is a) expedient and b) health-preserving. It spares the user two long walks and the likelihood in this weather of his taking sick from those walks...
...intensely self-conscious merging of the intoxication of original inspiration with master-craftsmanship. The Octet reflects this Master's modality of intellectual fervor and artistic vigilance. In its investigation of sonata form it also reflects his consciousness of the equal need for innovation and universality, by the light of living tradition. The Ensemble under the direction of conductor James Walker played absolutely splendidly, especially in the variation movement...