Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's Washington embassy during World War II, broad, black-haired Isaiah Berlin developed two bad habits: he was always late to work (he likes to sleep until 10:30), and always the last to appear at a dinner party. No one minded. His flashing dinner talk never failed to charm Washington hostesses and capital pundits. And his brilliant reports on U.S. thinking and doing made him Winston Churchill's most penetrating official observer of wartime America...
Diagonal Demons. From the pit, Igor Stravinsky's 40-year-old score blazed as never before: Stravinsky himself had cut down the instrumentation from the original no pieces to 55, given the score new warmth, color and compactness. Choreographer George Balanchine had scrapped Fokine's original Russian-folk-dancy choreography completely, put his more Oriental Bird and Prince on more acrobatic tiptoe...
...Francisco Moncion as the Prince brought a touchdown roar from the audience. In the second scene, Balanchine managed to move the evil Kostchei and his 40 demons back & forth diagonally in four groups, so that City Center's scant (40-ft.) stage always seemed full of excitement but never cluttered. Throughout, it was the most stunning ballet production Manhattan balletomanes had seen in many a moon. With the final curtain, the audience set up the kind of clamor that let Choreographer Balanchine, Conductor Leon Barzin and the whole cast know...
...some "Golden Rules for Conductors" the maestro admonished crustily: "Remember, you are not playing for your own fun, you are playing for the enjoyment of the audience . . . Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your eye; when you hear them at all, they are already too loud . . . The left hand has nothing to do in conducting an orchestra. Keep it in your vest-pocket and use it only occasionally to hush an instrument. . . Don't conduct with your arms, conduct with your ears...
Clutterbuck suffers acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...