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...looked like salt," said one of the 82 natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. "It came down like rain, and it burned when it touched your skin." An unexpected shift of wind had carried the ash from H-bomb tests 150 miles away, off Bikini...
Throughout, the deep, ringing speaking voice of Moses and the soaring tenor of Aaron were heard simultaneously. The orchestra played in a web of complicated polyphony, and the chorus sang in as many as twelve parts. Some found the rainbow shower of sound to their liking; others were puzzled and distracted, wondered whether the oratorio-like work was an opera at all. But Paris' Le Monde called it a miracle. The Neue Züricher Zeitung found the score "an ingenious summary of all that makes Schoenberg the founder of a new musical language." That language-like the words...
...Frontenac, Kans., City Clerk Tony Getto expected a shower of protests when the water supply was cut off briefly to repair the municipal plant, but while not a single customer telephoned to complain, one man slunk in to pay his bill...
...compare Happy Knoll to the Baths of Caracalla. For all its outward bonhomie, the Horlick-Magill correspondence chronicles a perpetual crisis -settling foundations, unsettled bar bills, membership raids from the wily rival club, Hard Hollow, and fights between locker room cliques (the change-shoes-and-leave set v. the shower-and-have-a-few-drinks faction). With no trouble at all the sociology-minded will be able to find in Happy Knoll a microcosm of American society. The women are aggrievedly aggressive; the young are unruly and pampered; the dining-room help is incompetent; advertising men (speechwise, they are horrifying...
...Pink Carnation) on Columbia, which bewails the loss of a girl for whom the rig was intended. When he is not before the radio mikes, Robbins carries this and other throat-huskers out to the country trade in an old Greyhound bus with bunks and a built-in shower. And a shower to sing in is just what his voice needs...