Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO is ten years old this week-and the occasion would normally be observed by congratulations on having kept the peace for a decade, mixed with strictures about the need for more strength. Instead, as has happened before, the Russians have given the Atlantic Alliance a jolt which shows that...
They made the mistake of letting the Dalai Lama visit India in 1956, where a free-spending six weeks made him aware of the outside world. Since then, though Radio Peking has on occasion quoted the Dalai Lama in dutiful denunciation of the American imperialists, he has in fact shown...
Under the Metropolitan Opera's harsh proscenium lights, the interior of St. Katherine's Church looked sadly tattered. The backdrop sagged, and the huge carved chair from which Walther von Stolzing sings his trial song in the first act of Die Meistersinger was pushed to one side. But...
On the stage were six nimble young men in dinner jackets, and strewed around them were more than a hundred percussion instruments-including a horse's jawbone, six water-buffalo bells, eight auto brake drums, a corrugated washboard and a set of bongo drums. When the conductor raised his...
...articulate, percussive quality well suited to the rapid trills and runs of 18th century organ style. With Biggs playing the Flentrop and Pinkham * operating a smaller 18th century organ moved in especially for the occasion, the concert unfolded as a gaily trip-hammered dialogue in which one instrument occasionally laid down the theme, then fell back to let the other one elaborate. Most of the time the two organs sounded together, but there was one passage where they called back and forth to each other like two playful boys. Each concerto ended with a sprightly minuet of such infectious gaiety...