Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half of the evening found the Choral Society alternating between uneasiness and an unusually lacklustre manner, with even their dependable tone sounding either shrill or dead. By contrast, the second part exhibited the familiar spirit and high quality of the chorus, especially in three beautiful Welsh folksongs arranged with taste and imagination by the Society's conductor, Elliot Forbes...
...youth. Said London's Tory Daily Telegraph: "The younger generation regards the Socialists either as strangers or as a collection of austere, button-booted, boot-faced, half-fossilized aunts, embittered by grim repressions and memories of something nasty seen down in the coal mine." The Mirror, a shrill echo of Labor Party slogans, plainly shared in Labor's loss of appeal to youth...
...Henze's atonal, heavily percussioned fairy tale, The Emperor's Nightingale; Polish-born Composer Alexander Tansman's Stravinsky-flavored exercise, New Clothes for the King; Italian Composer Nino Rota's The Cunning Squirrel. All three were hits. Henze's work, in particular, won a shrill, twelve-minute ovation. But defenders of the moppets' taste were badly shaken when Carlo Franci's Final Comedy and Giorgio Ghedini's Girotondo-both tricked up with flung pies, flying paintpots and banana-peel pratfalls-seemed to touch off a lot more enthusiasm than the serious moderns...
Craggy Konrad Adenauer-whom London Daily Mirror Columnist "Cassandra" (William Connor) once accused of demonstrating that Europe's German "problem child is still reaching for his flick knife"-has been a target of Fleet Street snarls for months. What had suddenly turned the snarls into a shrill chorus of rage was President Eisenhower's approaching tour of Western Europe's capitals and a surge of British fear that Adenauer would somehow persuade Ike "to keep the cold war alive." To the Daily Mail (circ. 2,071,054), Adenauer was reminiscent of Adolf Hitler, "who ranted and raved...
Dana Bate is excellent as Marco, the older cousin, making the most of what could be a very colorless part. Francesca Solana has her moments as the niece, but she is frequently shrill and overly intense. She is at her best in her quieter moments. Margery Ziskind is unconvincing as the wife, Frank Langella also has his moments, but generally his characterizations is overdrawn...