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...Faceless Roar. The composition started with chimes, but chimes whose tone got an added kickoff from a xylophone tick and was sustained by the high squeal of clarinets. For the next 21 minutes nothing else was so recognizable. Instrumental sounds tumbled about in wild confusion; there was never a concerted attack or a distinguishable pulse. The percussionists made sense only because many of their rat-a-tats and grumblings came out as minute variations on themes. The winds, on the other hand, were so overpowering, so agonizingly taut, that the listener felt lucky to find a recurring chord to hang...
Suddenly, Paris-born Conductor Monod, at 28 a standout interpreter of contemporary music, dropped his arms, and the orchestra stopped; but instead of silence, a frightful, apocalyptic roar came from one of the two loudspeaker units. At first it seemed to have no connection with the preceding part, but then it began to come clear through the clangorous fog: many of the rhythms were regurgitations of foregoing rhythms. Twice more the taped sounds interrupted the orchestra, each time became more drastic, until the effect was of actual terror, as machine-gun bursts alternated with animal wails, with monstrously loud cricket...
...excellent cast, except Boris Karloff as the judge, was jittered off top form on opening night -Julie upbore them. As the final curtain fell on a flaunting pageant of Joan's triumph at the coronation of the Dauphin (Paul Roebling), the first-nighters rose with a roar. They gave the cast eight curtain calls and Julie a standing ovation as she dissolved in tears...
Tension nears the breaking point when the two service squads line up for the kickoff. Led by the student cheering sections, fans roar at every play. After the game the winning student body swarms onto the field an masse to congratulate their team, while the losers utter a cheer as a token tribute to the victors...
...antelope is almost extinct because Arabs believe that to kill one is a great deed. In the old days of horses and spears, the feat was reasonably difficult, but today great motorcades of oil-rich princes of Araby chase the oryx across the desert with barbaric howls and the roar of powerful engines. One emir organized a 300-car hunt. Now the oryx has retreated into the Rub' al Khali (empty quarter) of Southern Arabia, where at most 100 survive. Talbot does not think they will survive for long. The same emir is after them hell-bent with airplanes...