Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silent Chancellor. All the while, 81-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sat stonily in a front row. After all, he himself has recently been pulling away from the Americans. His lieutenants are distressed by Adenauer's recent electioneering demands for a ban on the H-bomb and a closer look at the Soviet promise to pull troops out of Central Europe. But none dared tell der Alte so to his face. Irritated by their timid, roundabout hinting, Adenauer refused to have anything to do with their debate...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Die Walkure...
...didn't exist without music.'' He played anything and everything from Ravel to riverboat. at sight or from memory. He barreled through the local public library's scores of the great operas and croaked the male parts while his sister Shirley shrilled the upper registers? and mother and father sat and wondered helplessly what God had wrought...
Until he was 16, Lennie never heard a live symphony orchestra, but later he would often take his girls to Boston's Symphony Hall. One night, he and a girl named Mildred heard Koussevitzky. At the end of the concert there was an ovation, but Lennie just sat there, clapping very softly. "What's the matter?" asked Mildred. "Didn't you like it?" Said Lennie: "I'm so jealous...
...says Composer Walter Piston, "is like watching a woman knit." Is it the moment for a powerful initial attack? Lennie will deliver a stroke that is worthy of a medieval headsman (in St. Louis once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every man in the orchestra sat jaw-dropped in wonder, unable to make a sound). And best of all, as Reporter Paul Moor observed, "in the final rapturous climax of the Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, he will scowl and thrash the orchestra up to the peroration, and then?while the men go on playing, of course?...