Word: minuets
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TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled: "The week's pattern is continuing Soviet aggressiveness and continuing Western wariness. Observing the two lines of conduct is like watching a pair of dancers, one of whom is doing a delicate minuet while the other hurls himself into a hot apache number...
Nevertheless, some kind of Big Four conference seemed almost a certainty, beause relations between Russia and the West had entered a third postwar phase, The first was the period of phony collaboration. It was ushered in by the Potsdam conference where Harry Truman played a minuet on the piano while the Russians (politically) danced a hobnailed kazachok over Europe's face. After some two years of that, the Truman Doctrine ushered in the Cold War, a period of mobilization during which the West pulled back from direct contact with Russia, while organizing (under ERP) its joint defense...
...earned its rank as first among operas. Fritz Busch, another grand old name around the Met, did a magnificent job with his orchestra. Particularly commendable was his handling of the dance scene in Act II, when three small on-stage orchestras are playing a waltz, a gavotte, and a minuet, all combined with the pit orchestra in an ingenious contrapuntal pattern. Opera orchestras are not always as skillful as they might be, but this week has shown no deficiencies along that line...
...through the house furnishings show, looking over the latest things in draperies and taking test plops onto sofas. In the piano exhibit, eleven-year-old Frances Dean, of Comanche, delighted her schoolmates and amazed exhibitors by sitting down at a new baby grand and expertly rippling through a Paderewski minuet. Many a future farmer headed for the livestock barns to primp animals for the junior steer, hog and sheep shows. Ralph Finke, 13, of Denison, hauled out a can of Johnson's wax and set to work polishing the horns of his Hereford yearling...
...Koussevitzky, lacks the lightness and intimacy preferred by these familiar with the old Buseh recording; however the lush Boston reading found as much life and meaning in this music as its first performers must have in 1721. The horn and oboe soles, particularly in the irrepressible third minuet trio, were superlative...