Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential mansion last week to present his credentials as the new U.S. Ambassador to India, scholarly-looking Ellsworth Bunker was momentarily jolted by a loud, off-key blast from a brace of turbaned trumpeters. Next morning when he opened his paper the ambassador was greeted with yet another sour note: a slashing attack on the U.S. and Britain by India's Prime Minister Nehru...
Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, cleaning up their social obligations for the season, played host at a reception for some 1,000 Government officials and Congressmen. Milling through the East Room and the State Dining Room, the guests munched cookies, sipped lemon-and-raspberry spikeless punch, took note of the resplendence of satin, lace and jewels, viz.: Ohio's Mrs. Frank Lausche, in eggshell taffeta; Kentucky's Mrs. Sherman Cooper in black silk; Tennessee's Mrs. Estes Kefauver in two shades of green chiffon. Blazing the way toward a new style was Mrs. Randolph Burgess, wife...
From Playwright Tennessee Williams, chronicler of assorted tales of bottom-drawl Southern hot cats and baby dolls, came a candid, do-it-yourself interview, courtesy of NBC-TV's Wide Wide World-with Williams answering his own tape-recorded questions. Excerpts: Q. Why has there been a disturbing note of harshness and coldness and violence and anger in your more recent works? A. I have followed the developing tension and anger and violence of the world and time that I live in. Q. Haven't you ever known any nice people in your life...
...Toscanini's house in Riverdale (the Upper Bronx), piped tape-recorded music up to a giant speaker in the living room. When the spirit moved him, the old man sat in the living room listening to and judging the full-volume thunder of his orchestra. If a note or a phrase displeased him, he moved his head almost imperceptibly from side to side, frequently erupted into red-faced tirades if the music continued. In two years of listening, he gave an immediate, unqualified "Bene" to only one recording-a six-minute Ride of the Valkyries...
...whole production, there is only one violently wrong note--the lighting, by Brinley Mac-Laren. The effect of Peter Chermayeff's intelligent and attractive set was frequently spoiled by Mac-Laren's experimentations, which for the most part meant too little light and playing around with a colored spot. He might remember that the stage is a visual medium, which implies that the actors should be visible...