Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanks for your review of my opera Miss Julie [Nov. 12]. Because I do not want to bite the hand that feeds me, I'd like to amend (or at least amplify) the phrase that "Utah is a boring state." No state, by definition, is in itself boring. As for The State of Boredom, to me it is synonymous with tranquillity (i.e., lack of distraction), which most artists will concur is the first requisite for getting anything done...
Erhard has used the phrase before. For weeks before the September election, he lectured campaign audiences on it, giving cabaret performers a field day for jokes about the "chloroformed" and "uniformed" society. Others unkindly compared it to the Nazis' Volks-gemeinschaft (people's community), or to the treacly togetherness of Moral Re-Armament. Ludwig Erhard had something quite different in mind, and he spelled it out a bit more fully in last week's two-hour inaugural address to the newly elected Bundestag. The new society, said he, "is not created by one action, but unfolds through...
...Hall tries his hand at experimentation. A word, or phrase is deleted. Perhaps he reblocks the scene to include Elizabeth more into the line of action. If he feels he must illustrate the example--and he is a very fine actor himself--he will get on the stage and act some of the points out. To break the scene down, he divides it into "beats": one action leads to its resolution, then to another action, and so on. The actors resume their roles gradually, beat by beat. Then larger units are pieced together, until they work more smoothly...
...errors in prominent solo passages, the HRO came significantly close. Yannatos paced the piece convincingly and generally got all the contrasts he was looking for. The violins were most exuberant, accenting the opening theme just right, and the woodwinds--especially the flutes and those juicy clarinets--phrased things well in the many interchanges. It is too bad, then, that several instruments failed at critical moments: the tranquille violin solo going sour, wrong notes spoiling a cello phrase, the horns (after hitting everything else) slurping the octave in their famous solo, an oboe flatting a chord, and most obtrusively, a trumpet...
...Sadow had put in 25 years in the frenetic field of Manhattan fashion advertising to become a copy supervisor with a two-window corner office, a comfortable $13,000 salary, and a sense of frustration. "The superficial little plays on words, the tired old turns of phrase that might seem something new to a little girl fresh out of Smith or Vassar-they were old hat to me." Mrs. Sadow quit to seek a master's degree in library service at Columbia, where at first she found studies so difficult that she "went home and cried every...