Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extraordinary how intolerant people are about snakes"). But there will still be music. His 19-year-old daughter plays the flute, his 17-year-old son the clarinet, the nurse a flute clarinet, his wife the bassoon. "It is an odd combination," says Piatigorsky, rolling his sad, spaniel-brown eyes. "Sometimes when I come in with my cello in the little parts assigned to me, I am told to 'go over there in the corner and play.' It is not so good, really, as years ago when our butler, Dr. Wallisch, played the piano. He had once been...
...gust from a dark grotto. In Manhattan last week, with her weedy dark hair hanging to her waist, she chanted in French the bittersweet songs that have made her famous at home. Her large, square hands shaped the phrases; her high-cheekbonsd, chalky face was alternately sullen and sad. In her best song, I Hate Sundays ("Every day of the week is empty and hollow, but there's worse than the weekday, there's pretentious Sunday"), her voice faded to an organ whisper. Even in the gayer songs, delivered in a gutty shout, she seemed to be drowning...
...program. Sniggered the Express: "Twiddle the dial any evening, and the chances are that the crack of a shot in Dragnet will set the objets d'art tinkling on your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble a sad, self-evident little droplet of knowledge into our sitting room." Further, the Express charged that 50% of the time that ITA allocates to children is now taken up with Americana. "Do they imagine that commercial TV was brought into being here in order to turn our children into little Americans...
Unforgettable Exordium. The program opens with a roll of drums and a dashing fanfare of twelve trumpets that ends in a sad plop. The fanfare is followed by Composer Malcolm Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture, dedicated to "President Hoover" (says the program note: "The momentous opening-the beginning of an introduction that is to contain the foreshadowings of all the principal thematic material-is among the unforgettable exordiums of music, echoing, as it does, what might be called the elemental power of the ethos of sublimity . . ."). The Overture is scored for "a prodigious array of percussion, pitched...
Adapted for the screen by Colette, Pit of Loneliness is a sad tale of frustrated affection and desire in a 19th century girls' boarding school. Inadequate sub-title translations of the French outline a depressing picture of adolescent girls and their teachers in fertile, maleless isolation...