Word: nevertheless
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Functioning both as stage director and conductor, Goldovsky has chosen effective blocking and byplay, and keeps the performance moving along at a good pace. His beat is clear and his cueing exemplary (though he ought to curtail his Toscaninian grunting and humming). Nevertheless, the orchestral playing is far from polished. The company can doubtless not afford a sufficient number of orchestral rehearsals; the players are quickly recruited more or less at random from the Union local and thus cannot possibly achieve a nuanced and precise ensemble. I fear nothing can be done about this shortcoming...
...dues could bring the biddies back, dues would be an easy matter to obtain. Nothing, however, will bring the biddies back, and the substitutions thoughtfully provided by various House committees are not really worthy of the same loyalty, financial or otherwise. Nevertheless, these "extras" have become so much a part of the System that it seems unfair to support them with voluntary dues. More than unfair, it is gradually becoming difficult and embarassing...
Hays tried to blunt the attack with another Southern Governor's endorsement, got Mississippi's James Plemon Coleman, an old friend, to come to his rescue. "The South needs you in her great struggle," announced Coleman bravely. Nevertheless, Hays lost by 1,200 votes out of 60,000. Last week Brooks Hays revealed how precarious has become the Southern moderate position. Said he of Coleman, already under attack at home: "I hope the people of Mississippi won't hold him responsible for my views...
...hired a top Broadway director, Jose (Long Day's Journey into Night) Quintero. Although he had never done an opera before, and had seen only half a dozen in his life, Director Quintero somehow managed to absorb most of the stagy, stiff-kneed mannerisms of traditional opera productions. Nevertheless, particularly in Pagliacci, he added some truly exciting touches: Nedda, starting her first-act aria reclining voluptuously on the steps leading to the open-air stage; Canio, ripping off his white clown's coat at the opera's end, revealing a blood-red shirt...
Huxley's revisitation nevertheless is a fascinating intellectual exercise for those who like to think about the shape of things that have or might come. And sometimes Huxley still sounds like the brave young worldling who wrote Crome Yellow. Most original Huxleyism is a suggested law on the lines of habeas corpus, which would be a habeas mentem for the human race. Roughly translated it would mean the right for all to say: keep your dirty hands off my mind...