Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This eager mea culpa mood pervaded the entire congress which last week in Milan assembled almost 3,000 Communist delegates from eleven nations. Technically, it was the Sixth National Congress of the Italian Communist Party, but influential guests came from Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Britain and Uruguay...
Training his infantry chorus (whose average age is 28), de Paur strives first to get them in the mood of what the song is about. Says he: "When we sing a Cossack song, we're as near to being Cossacks as we can get; when we sing the Jewish chant Eli Eli, we're as close to being Jews with their whole history of oppression and religious faith as is possible for us." Sometimes the harmony gets too close, and de Paur admits it. "I may go overboard a bit. Lord knows I deplore that homogenized effect...
...expects, in a Hitchcock movie, a few moments as shockingly vivid as a fire alarm. There are no such moments here. There are many clever little shots-in-the-arm that are unrelated to the story. Innumerable tricks of lighting and mood are moderately effective but irrelevant...
...WMCA last week and contemplated his possible winnings (a reported ducal $75,000 a year, maybe more, if a hoped-for 150 stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...
...succeeded in doing . . . was to tie up between 5,000 and 9,000 Indian and British troops in a beleaguered fortress. ... All the same ... to have spent the last few days behind its doomed defenses was to fall inevitably into nostalgic and melancholy mood. Ramzak was a challenging flight of military fancy. ... It was called 'the largest monastery in the world.' . . . No [European] woman has ever been within 60 miles, except the six ENSA [British USO] girls, who arrived for one night in June 1944, and left their high-heeled footprints in the soft cement outside the Brigade...