Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remaining items on the program were three works for solo piano, played by Bruce Archibald. Schoenberg's Six Short Piano Pieces, Opus 19 (1911), come from a period when the composed was tired of post-Romanticism but had not yet concretized his twelve-tone technique. After close acquaintance, they still impressed me as no more than undergraduate improvisation despite Archibald's careful rendition...
Twenty years ago G.V. Carey took a fling at drawing up his ideas on punctuation. Now he has updated and expanded his effort into a handy book, the best short compendium on the subject to be found anywhere. Carey regards punctuation as "governed two-thirds by rule and one-third by personal taste," and its first essential as conveying the meaning "to the reader's mind, through his eye, with the least possible delay and without any ambiguity." He feels that "the best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious...
...pixie. With a toss of her head, or a shrug of her shoulders, she conveys the essence of boyish awkwardness. Her Peter is straightforward and innocent, and she seldom resorts to coyness. Consequently she avoids the pitfall of appearing too "cute," and is, instead, totally captivating and convincing. In short, she is Peter...
...short, with this zesty production by Basil Langton, the Group 20 Players have another solid hit on their hands...
Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 worth of jazz, color and pomp, plus Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr., falls short of what the Gershwin folk opera could have been on the screen...