Word: shod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quartet recording in past years has often been a slip-shod business. Victor especially seems contented just to get the sound down on wax and let it go at that. Not so, however, with Columbia's Budapest Quartet series. Here are four players, each a first rate soloist in his own right, welded together into the kind of unit you find in a good crew or ball team. Other quartets have the same precision, and occasionally the same warmth of tone, but the Budapest people have that extra something that brings the music to life and gives it symphonic dimensions...
...pieces of work, relaying on restraint and carefully prepared surprise for their effects. Thomas accomplishes the feat of writing a fantasy in a realistic style. A too conscious attempt at atmosphere occasionally swamps Albert Friedman's "Carnival," while David Hessey's "Launching" sacrifices a powerful theme to occasionally slip-shod treatment. Cecil Schneer makes a heroic attempt to get inside a converted isolationist by reducing him through pain to his Freudian common denominator...
Chief stumbling block in the program are regulations involving farm price control. For three months the farm bloc has ridden rough-shod over Henderson's best-laid plans and will continue to as long as the OPA must seek the approval from the Secretary of Agriculture for every limitation it plans in that field. At present farm prices cannot be touched until they reach one hundred ten per cent parity. So far this obstacle has tied OPA's hands so tightly that, although beef, cattle, and lamb are now selling at better than one hundred twenty per cent parity, Henderson...
...Anglo-Russian understanding made by Mr. Maisky over a long period of years." Many M.P.s looked up toward the very popular Maisky, who sat looking like a faintly amused sphinx with his dumpling body relaxed against the stiff-paneled wall, his hands sprawled on his knees, his black-shod feet propped up on the iron fretwork at the bottom of the gallery railing. He did not change his expression, but wiggled his right foot during the cheering...
...hand-to-mouth basis. Army and Navy courses for scientists and linguists have been filled, but usually with no qualified applicants to spare. Doubling the Army within a year will call for many repetitions of the Government courses at M. I. T. and Cruft, but only the most slip-shod arrangements have been made for supplying enough men to take them...