Word: piquantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piquant and pungent as paprika is the music of Béla Bartók, Hungary's highest-browed composer. During the past fortnight, with the U. S. musical season well along in the salad course, many a concert program was well sprinkled with Bartók. Diffident, wispy, grey, Béla Bartók himself was visiting the U. S., for the second time in his 59 years, looking unlike the way his severe works sound...
Certainly piquant is the tile of the P. B. H. Conference on a Government Career. But there will be nothing intangible about the round table discussion, as Administration leaders take time out to explain their problems. Nor will the effort vanish with winter's last nasty days; already a permanent bureau of information on the possibilities of a Capitol Hill career is promised...
Reunion in New York (produced by The American Viennese Group, Inc.). The Viennese actors of last season's revue, From Vienna, seemed engaging and talented, but too alien for Broadway. The trouble wasn't their accent, which was piquant, but their material, which was ponderous. When they offered a second bill last week, their accents were less piquant but their sketches were more lively. Reunion in New York is more or less Broadway's conception of a Viennese revue. (And, just as likely, Vienna's conception of a Broadway one.) It lacks the pace...