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...have been a mistake to give him Toscanini's job, and Barbirolli made a greater mistake in accepting it. No two conductors could have been more different-in style, in approach to music, in taste, in general attitude toward conducting. Toscanini, the legendary martinet who kept the smallest details in perfect order, was the complete opposite of the mild-mannered Barbirolli, whose relaxed, romantic interpretations were based more on love than on technicality. When his contract at New York ran out, Barbirolli returned to England, by all accounts a failure, and took over the almost moribund Halle Orchestra of Manchester...
...audience at every performance, but more nights than not, a rare spark seemed to pass between Fleisher and his listeners. It was not the kind of spark that stemmed from mere dramatics or showmanship. What he had was the kind of flame that was ignited by rubbing the smallest phrase just so, and then building from there. "It was like making a happening," he recalls. "When the stars were right, I could kind of get out of myself and into something mysterious and wondrous and exciting." Fleisher is still hoping to achieve such moments at the keyboard again. With great...
...complete what is ambitiously billed as "the world's quickest photochemical-smog warning system"-which means daily bulletins issued via radio and TV. So far, the smog is seeping across Japan faster than humans can chart it. On a hot, bright day last week, it reached Shikoku, smallest of Japan's four main islands, where more schoolchildren were suddenly afflicted with sore throats and eyes. Pollution experts later surmised that a freak wind had blown pollutants 70 miles across the Inland Sea from the industrial cities of Kobe, Kyoto and Osaka...
...Good Diet is back in business. The breweries are working again, and cold beer goes swiftly at $1 a bottle. The Ibo commercial instinct is reasserting itself everywhere-from the $20-a-night Bristol Hotel in Lagos, where Ibo businessmen throng to re-establish their contacts, to the smallest villages, where young boys sell cigarettes for a few cents' profit. "They have learned a lot from the war," a Yoruba from Nigeria's Western Region told TIME Correspondent James Wilde last week. "They will never try armed force again, but will use their brains instead. This...
...timing of a London rep company. With an accretion of under statements, Miles builds the universal tragedy of a family whose past consumes its future, that finds it far harder to acknowledge mistakes than to perpetuate them. His slow evocation of a vanished England is evident in the smallest vignette. For example: the town milquetoast (Norman Bird) appears at a charity show, blazes to life for one salacious song, then returns-almost with relief-to his eunuchoid role...