Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schumann: Quintet in E Flat (Rudolf Serkin, pianist, with the Busch String Quartet; Columbia, 2 sides, LP). Quieter, more flowing music than the Fantasia. In this performance the first movement has some of the innocuous quality of Muzak, but it finishes strongly. Recording: good...
...Aldrich, a callow, voice-cracking adolescent. Since Stone (a master sergeant in World War II) is now fat, 32 and balding, he says: "On TV it will have to be a different show, with a new Henry. Our radio technique of abrupt sequences and staccato action will change to quieter, more restrained comedy...
They approached it amidst no new sensational disclosures. Instead, the trial in a Manhattan Federal Court took a quieter, tenser turn. FBI agents, in endless search, had followed countless trails from New York to Washington to Baltimore. They had dug through old files, turning up bills of sale, bank accounts, letters-even the fragmentary, casual conversations of years past, now of utmost importance. With these minutiae, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy fought his duel with Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department...
...elder brother, Satish Chandra Bose, a quieter and steadier Congressman, was South Calcutta's delegate to the West Bengal Assembly until his death last year...
...itself a sadly skinny one. Playwright Aumont obviously wrote it as a gift for Actor Aumont. Adapter Barry did nothing to take it away. While Aumont is sloshing his emphatic charm all over the stage, the script is dousing everything with tedious chatter. Consoling but not countervailing is the quieter charm of Cinemactress Palmer...