Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future looked good, Birrell thought. "The big problem in Brazil is to select which opportunity you want to concentrate on. It's like being a hungry kid in a candy store. You don't know which box to pick from." Take castor oil: "It is the only lubricant for cosmic travel. That's what they call it-cosmic travel. A man wants to talk business with me. It has an incredible future...
When he walks to the piano, with his shambling, coltish stride, and peers owl-eyed at the audience, Lorin looks like anything but the image of a dashing musician. But his technique is close to faultless, his articulation razor-sharp, his attack bold and secure. Moreover, he can shape individual musical ideas out of a kind of interior logic without the bolstering of exaggerated tempos or showy dynamics. Last week he made both his Saint-Saëns and Chopin sound beautifully and inevitably correct...
...Hollander home at Hollis, L.I., Lorin practices up to seven hours a day, somnolently watched by a cat named Cello that "especially likes Schumann." A student at Manhattan's Professional Children's School, Lorin takes his lessons with him when he is touring. Some day, he thinks, he would like to be a "wellrounded" musician on the order of Leonard Bernstein, whom he idolizes "except for his popular music-I can't appreciate that." Meantime, the problem in the Hollander family is to find a house with an extra room: father and son find they cannot practice...
...tragedy unfolded without the benefit of set pieces, ensembles or arias. Heavily percussioned, the orchestra sometimes sank to a rich, nervous whisper flickering through the strings, sometimes burst forth in anguished, brassy cries. Throughout, Janacek's use of exotic folk idiom wrapped the opera in an eerie, Kafka-like haze that did much to add depth and mysterious dimension to the melodramatic plot...
...pledge cards" to editors, asking them to observe the release rules. When the Times refused to sign, it was barred from the group's style shows. Unperturbed, Elizabeth Howkins tapped private sources, last week ran a story about next spring's styles (heavy on geometric designs, skirts like "deflated melons"). "It's ridiculous," said Editor Howkins, "to observe such release rules." To that, newsmen in other fields could only say amen...