Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more like an earnest divinity student than a political boss, Patrice Lumumba slipped into a rented Cadillac and was whisked off through the sleeping borough of Queens to Manhattan's respectable Barclay Hotel. The V.I.P. luncheons and the ceremonial meetings with U.N. and U.S. representatives might help to mellow Lumumba after the past few weeks of fumbling and failure in his newly independent homeland...
...sweet-scented morning," and concluding with the peaceful resignation of "The Farewell" ("My heart is still and waits for its deliverance"). Walter's intense performance last week wonderfully illuminated the score's leafy detail, and the orchestra under his baton played with an ardor and mellow tone it rarely displays. As for Contralto Forrester (ably joined by Tenor Richard Lewis), her velvet-piled voice floated over the orchestra with effortless power, adapting itself in a remarkable range of nuances to the work's shadow-flittery moods...
...triumphal comeback for a fourth term as Burma's Premier, roly-poly U Nu put on the saffron robes of a Buddhist monk and retired into a monastery outside Rangoon for four days' silent contemplation. Then, wrapped again in his traditional, pale blue longyi and looking uncommonly mellow for the rough old campaigner he is, U Nu stepped last week before a Parliament in which his Union Party had won a thumping two-thirds majority in last February's elections, and proclaimed: "We are determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past...