Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gandhi's jail-going was primarily pointed at limited objectives, such as the repeal of the anti-Asiatic registration. In South Africa, when some of his followers pleaded with him to extend the struggle into new areas, he stood his ground: "In a pure fight the fighters would never go beyond the objective fixed when the fight began," he said, "even if they received an accession to their strength in course of fighting, or on the other hand they could not give up their objective if they found their strength dwindling away...
...dash in :20.1 to break the world's record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack the record set by France's M. Pauliquen...
...easily covered up by too heavy a piano accompaniment. And his piano texture tended to fall into two extremes--simple parallel octaves, or thick massive chords--with little in between. The slow movement was much too long, contained enough material for four movements, and lapsed into passages of pure Prokofiev. I would advise Rzewski to write a new central movement for this sonata...
Claudio Spies '50 was represented by his Music for a Ballet. My only reservation is that there was not enough Spies in the piece: it was pure neo-Classical Stravinsky--clear, clean and often dry with its reliance on repeated staccato notes. It had the virtues of being stylistically consistent (albeit in another man's style) and eminently danceable. Spies wrote it for two pianos and now intends to orchestrate it. This can be a dangerous procedure; for orchestration ought to be part of the original conception, not something to be added last. As this work now stands...
Died. John Campbell Boot, 67, second Baron Trent of Nottingham, longtime (1926-54) head of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the vast (more than 1.300 shops in Great Britain) British drugstore chain founded by his father; in St. Lawrence, island of Jersey...