Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great expectations for his university, and he is content to sacrifice popularity to realize them. "He's not exactly the kind of man you would want to share a foxhole with," an aide says, "but if you were playing a crucial baseball game, you'd say, 'Pitch Branscomb,' and if it was a doubleheader, you'd say, 'Pitch Branscomb twice...
...worst-performed, Schubert's Mass, written at 18, suffered from an execrable accompaniment by a small string ensemble. In their solo passages, the strings sounded uniformly out of tune, weak, uncertain, and uncoordinated Beneath the chorus, they could only muddle the texture a little, but almost did derange the pitch and rhythm of the three excellent soloists. Sure and accurate, Tenor David Griffith, Soprano Emily Romney and Bass Chi-Yuen Wang successfully staved off the strings, but were drowned by the chorus's volume. Except at a few points, it seemed that the chorus had been through the whole thing...
What brought about this success most of all was Paul Schoeffler's brilliant handling of Sachs. The continual philosophical note of his lines never strayed into pomposity; a spread-legged geniality did not dissolve into pointlessly effusive gestures or sprawling pitch. The drama discards Wagner's customary alliterations; tense articulation turns melodies into musical prose that Schoeffler controlled with delightful precision and agility. Schoeffler kept Sachs' soliloquys from pretentiousness because his tone had in all registers a cleanness that blended movingly with the orchestra's winds. His very ease and control summed up Wagner's reconciliation of technique and spirit...
While the war was ending, the desperate extremists of the Secret Army Organization stepped up their terrorist campaign in Algeria to an unprecedented pitch. Two French army pilots took off in their planes and strafed an F.L.N. army camp across the Moroccan border. While veiled Moslem women mourned the slain, the pilots returned to their base in Algeria and promptly deserted. In a single day in Algeria, 75 people were killed or wounded. In Algiers, European gunmen spread chaos, killing at least 20 anti-S.A.O. commandos of De Gaulle's government. The police received emergency calls reporting murders...
...been easy for the West Germans to turn their backs on the Soviet proposal, for Smirnov has offered not the slightest hint of what political price Moscow might be prepared to offer in any negotiations. But in their pitch, the Russians have firm backing from all their allies-even Marshal Tito has stopped Yugoslavia's hate-Germany campaign to sweeten the atmosphere-and the Smirnov line still has some appeal in West Germany. Particularly interested: Erich Mende, leader of Adenauer's little Free Democratic coalition partners, who has long sought closer contact with Moscow to spur chances...