Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 4 (Columbia). From the first brassy challenge to fate to the booming triumph of the finale, Eugene Ormandy sweeps grandly through the Fourth Symphony, pulling from the Philadelphia Orchestra its famed bold and burnished sound. Nor does he slight the plaintive moments, or the whimsical. Ormandy has already made topnotch recordings of Tchaikovsky's Fifth and Sixth, and the three performances are now available as a package...
...being called "incredible," "dynamite," "the bomb," and "the master." He has "icy blue eyes," "iron hands," and he has survived "countless brushes with death." Actually, in his only major accident so far, in 1958, he got off with a badly broken nose. The real Eugenio Monti is a short, slight, 38-year-old Italian who prefers Coca-Cola to Chianti, goes to bed at 9, earns his living as a ski-lift operator, and hasn't any idea how he happens to be the world's best bobsledder. "I cannot explain it," he says. "I can only...
Tennis star Keith Jennings, one of the quickest and most graceful athletes in the East, will probably play in the second spot for Princeton, though he gained the number one berth over Gay for the Navy match last Saturday. Harvard's second man, sophomore Jose Gonzalez, should have a slight edge if he faces Jennings...
Cross-Pollination. What it all amounts to, says Director Peter Hall, with only slight understatement, is "a tremendous explosion in the British theater." Never has the theater there been, as Peter O'Toole says, so "damn healthy." "It is," agrees Claire Bloom, "the most exciting theater in the world"-as the following color pages show. Fifty-one productions are thriving in the London West End and off-West End. Two government-subsidized groups, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater, are turning away customers, and almost any provincial town worth its name has its own repertory company playing...
...great mentor Degas perhaps caught her contrary character best in his 1884 portrait. Wistful, Cassatt sits in slight supplication, knees and wrists together, her eyes deflected in reverie, her hands holding playing cards like a fan. She was appalled that he depicted her with gambler's tools, but for all her chamber-music modesty, she was not without a sense of humor. She loved recounting Degas' remark as he admired one of her many mother-and-child scenes, "It has all your qualities and all your faults," he had said, unable to resist an acid aside...