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Cathedral Hush. Everything following might be expected to be anticlimactic, but Berlioz achieves perhaps his greatest effects in the quieter passages that grip the heart after all the thunder. The superb Sanctus calls for a tenor solo in which, by a dazzling piece of orchestration, the single, defenseless human voice is set off against the relentless clash of cymbals; and in the sweet, concluding Agnus Dei, there are chilling traces of jagged pagan rhythms (later used by Stravinsky). Conductor Munch tenderly and forcefully drove toward the end, spinning out the Amen with a loving final touch. A cathedral hush hung...
...Change. A compact, lightweight diesel engine for small fishing and pleasure boats was put on sale by General Motors. The 1,500-lb. engine delivers 87 h.p. to the propeller. G.M. claims that it is quieter, cheaper to operate and safer than a gas engine. Price...
...Manhattan last week, Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery announced a new, virtually painless dental drill, the Cavitron. Designed to replace the nerve-wracking metal burr, the pencil-shaped Cavitron is quieter and quicker...
Increasing success and recognition-and his eminently happy nine-year marriage to Actress Bacall-seem to have made him a quieter man. Baby (actually, Bogie calls her Betty) and Bogie make no pretense of leading the sort of romantic existence which screen magazines have tagged "idyllic." Betty now refuses to put foot on his yacht. Bogie refuses to light her cigarettes (although he has gone halfway and presented her with a cigarette lighter). They have numerous, spirited differences of opinion. But despite the difference in their ages (she is 29) and the fact that both are competitors in a cutthroat...
Because Lamont is open later at night, fewer students are using it in the afternoons, McNiff continued. In addition, about 15 per cent of its night visitors are non-College men. Graduate students are frequenting Lamont because it is cooler, quieter, and open longer than other University libraries and because it provides smoking rooms...