Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane, he was approached by a forceful hakoshi, or delegate rustler, from a rival faction, who persuaded him to swap his air ticket for a first-class train ride, "all meals paid for, and plenty of sake." But once aboard the train, the delegate fell in with a smooth-talking hakoshi of the Fujiyama faction, who persuaded him to descend for a night of pleasure in the resort town of Atami, 60 miles short of Tokyo. Before resuming the journey next day. the delegate was presented with a cakebox, and the modest explanation: "It's only a little ochugen...
...most promising con ducting talent to appear in England since Sir Thomas himself rose to fame. He is not a spectator's conductor. A solidly built, shock-haired man with a Mozartean profile, he conducts spiritedly but has none of the balletic exuberance of Bernstein or the smooth elegance of Sir Adrian Boult or the icily imperious quality of Reiner. Nor are his performances flamboyantly colored: where Beecham's Mozart tends to be effusively loving, Davis' is simple end unaffected. He combines grace with precision, gravity with rhythmic bite...
Although the heavies proved effective and smooth in long races during the regular season, they simply did not have the power to defeat the Midshipmen in the shorter race. Rough water also hampered the crew...
Last week Tufts presented William Saroyan's "The Cave Dwellers." One's reaction to Saroyan's self-consciously heart-warming parable is a matter of personal opinion. I find it a little on the gooey side, but as performed last week it was smooth and enjoyable. Margaret Victor was charming as the girl and Frederick Blais did a creditable job as the King. Stephen Palestrant produced servicable sets for both shows...
Died. Helen Trent, 28, queen of the soap operas, oldest sudser on the air (by three weeks over Ma Perkins), veteran of no husbands but of romances with every sort of fellow from handsome billionaires and hypnotists to psychotics and smooth-talking thugs, cause of a movie tycoon's suicide, a rancher's self-exile to a banana republic, once heard by 4,000,000 listeners on 203 CBS affiliate stations; of hardening of the kilocycles (despite respectable ratings); in Manhattan...