Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quartet recording in past years has often been a slip-shod business. Victor especially seems contented just to get the sound down on wax and let it go at that. Not so, however, with Columbia's Budapest Quartet series. Here are four players, each a first rate soloist in his own right, welded together into the kind of unit you find in a good crew or ball team. Other quartets have the same precision, and occasionally the same warmth of tone, but the Budapest people have that extra something that brings the music to life and gives it symphonic dimensions...
...join the United Nations' cause to become free and independent nations. We must set up firm timetables under which they can work out and train Governments of their own choosing, and we must establish ironclad guarantees, administered by all the United Nations jointly, that they shall not slip back into colonial status...
Said Director Stevens: "In these times the only actor that I would like to direct is Sessue Hayakawa. . . . Some of you old-time moviegoers remember him. . . . Well Sessue, if this gets to you in Tokyo . . . here's an offer for you. Slip into the mouse-green uniform of a Jap general and some fine sundown when we get over there we'll take a shot of you climbing up to that high point on the island of Corregidor where the flagpole stands . . . and from the top of that shell-scarred mast you'll pull down your meatball...
...chiselled pieces of work, relaying on restraint and carefully prepared surprise for their effects. Thomas accomplishes the feat of writing a fantasy in a realistic style. A too conscious attempt at atmosphere occasionally swamps Albert Friedman's "Carnival," while David Hessey's "Launching" sacrifices a powerful theme to occasionally slip-shod treatment. Cecil Schneer makes a heroic attempt to get inside a converted isolationist by reducing him through pain to his Freudian common denominator...
...decided at first that it would be easier to slip from corner to corner, to steal a jacket from a gardener's shed, a cloak from a blind man, to lie hidden in a nearby cathedral "under the eyes of six arch-chancellors of the Holy Roman Empire...