Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here is a recording long overdue, and not only because it is the first representation of two famous composers. While it might be rash to say that the musical avant garde has lost touch with the concert-going public, it is certain that this public must be educated in a very thorough manner if it is to get more than a shock from a work by Stockhausen. Last year's New Music concerts in Paine Hall included several works by Stockhausen and members of his school; auditors were left with vivid memories of short bursts of highly involved music, inevitably...
...grasp. This is also the case with Stockhausen, as Robert Craft points out: "For example, we hear a high, loud, staccato note in the oboe; that it is high, loud, staccato, and played by an oboe are factors of almost as great importance as whether the note itself is, say...
...say that Pius XII "was able to make a tormented world feel the attraction of Christian goodness." Protestants in Spain, Colombia and Italy never felt this Christian goodness at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church during his reign...
...politicians thrown out of office by his coup? ''They should pray a little bit now and ask forgiveness from God for their sins." Pakistan's troubles, said Ayub Khan, arose from the clash of power between the President and the Prime Minister: "I say, after you have elected a man for a fixed period, it is much better to let him have a run instead of pulling his leg every day." Suppose, suggested a reporter, the people did not like all of his new system. Snorted General Ayub Khan: "Lots of people are bloody fools...
...Everybody wants me to play another dotty leftenant colonel," said Alec Guinness, alluding-in an interview with syndicated Nightscrawler Earl Wilson-to his Academy Award-winning interpretation of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. "The moneybags always say, 'Let's make another picture exactly like the last one'-and they lose their shirts. Now we're in the middle of the horror cycle. I hope they all do lose their shirts...