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...point, Mr. General's two-star superior (John McGiver) stuns the camp and apoplectrifies himself by Jeeping in on a Greek-styled folk fling, where he finds the cook and Mr. General doing kick-ups (in non-Government-issue evzone skirts and tasseled headgear) to the shrill piping of bouzotiki records. And in Act III there is a court-martial, with the key kooks testifying, that resembles a Marx Brothers movie sequence scripted by Salvador Dali. The cook and Mr. General are both outranked in acting honors by John McGiver. He plays and looks like Captain Bligh in khaki...
...from Niles. Authentic he may be, fascinating he is, but a singer he really is not. His is a voice that is not a voice in the musical sense of the word. His singing is not a flow of melody, but a strange string of sounds that are sometimes shrill, sometimes whining, sometimes rasping, like the sound of a cello bow scratching an unwilling string, but most often pitched in a vibrant falsetto of unworldly intensity. It is not the sort of voice that one instantly enjoys. It most definitely has to grow on the listener...
...Secretary of State Dean Rusk prepared to talk Berlin with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (see THE NATION), the Red propagandists were aiming shrill protests at "violation of East German sovereignty" by Western planes. Possibly even more significant than these propaganda noises were the sounds picked up by Western airline pilots heading into Berlin: on their radios, they heard occasional interfering signals, as if the Communists were testing jamming devices to knock out the planes' radio navigation. Some crews reported East German searchlights on them. And one afternoon last week, Pan American's Flight No. 609, flying well...
...memoirs of my late father-in-law, when he was a boy in Maine a hundred years ago. He went with his grandfather, a Freewill Baptist, more out of curiosity, I gather, than anything else. He always remembered the men's guttural voices and the women's shrill and squeaky as they came on the dance floor suiting their actions to their song...
Sensitive Country Boy: Thanks largely to the persistent shrill of newspaper criticism, Premier Chang was unable to develop a base of public support, was fair game for the tough and impatient army officers. The junta wasted no time in swooping down on the rampant press, quickly outlawed 76 newspapers and 305 agencies, imprisoned 200 bogus newsmen. Chastised, the press now ventures only mild jabs at the junta and completely avoids direct criticism of Pak.* We don't think we should go too far in criticizing the military government, because keeping the business going is more important than speaking...