Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nonetheless the music had its bright spots. Sensitive playing from violinist Richard Hamm and cellist Steven Gates sparked an otherwise lack-lustre orchestra. Sopranos Jane Devitt and Made-laine Rembock displayed powerful but well-controlled voices, while alto Gail Feinberg sang everything with a pubescent, lower-class tone that was instant comic relief. Tenor Larry Bakst, looking more embarrassed than most in his sparse neo-Athenian garb, nonetheless gave out a pure, well-modulated Russell Oberlin-like sound that was the surprise joy of the evening. The chorus acquitted itself energetically, though its acting and stage deportment matched the sophistication...
...opened at the Savoy in 1884, Sullivan fled to London. From France he declared that his score had a disquieting "family resemblance" to his previous work and that only by abjuring the musical comedy form altogether could he progress as a composer. Gilbert, characteristically less concerned with posterity, was nonetheless so moved by his collaborator's threats and supplications that he put aside the pedestrian libretto on which he was working to write what eventually was produced as the Mikado...
...Nonetheless, he remains far from euphoric about the likelihood of a quick breakthrough to negotiations, and he is properly reluctant to give Hanoi a tactical and propaganda advantage by permitting the talks to be held in a disadvantageous setting. The last time that happened, he recalls only too well, was in 1951, when preliminary talks on ending the Korean War were held behind Communist lines in the village of Kae-song. U.S. officials were forced to thread through a hostile crowd and display white flags when they went to the table. The chief American negotiator, Vice Admiral C. Turner...
...development through a combination of "broad democracy with a scientific and highly qualified management." It stopped short of the outright democratization that many Czechoslovaks are clamoring for, and made abundantly clear the Communist Party's unwillingness to permit challenges as yet to its dominant political role. Nonetheless, the remarkable document officially retired many bits of Marxist dogma and dealt a staggering blow to the institutions of the police state...
...years, the most modern museum in London has been a scruffy, nondescript gallery in a walkup off Piccadilly. Nonetheless, from its attic offices the Institute of Contemporary Arts has launched most of the exhibitions and manifestoes that have made Britain once again a force to be reckoned with in the arts. Leader of the small founding group was Sir Roland Penrose, now 67, a minor surrealist painter in his own right and longtime friend of Critic Sir Herbert Read and Sculptor Henry Moore. Under Penrose, ICA pioneered in giving major shows to artists from abroad, including Picasso, Max Ernst...