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Tolen has The Knack. With a tap on his snare drum, a fillip of his hair, or an rpm of his white cycle he can banish the serneity of any normal giri and transform her into a quivering mass of ungovernable desire. Colin wants to get The knack. He's just a mild-mannered, horny school-teacher who'd be satisfied with one of Tolen's girls. So when Nancy arrives, Colin decides to make his feeble play, with some help from Tom, a crazy Irishman who must paint everything white. Good destroys evil, Colin gets Nancy, and Tolen loses...
Psalms, like its predecessor, is a choral work in Hebrew and is scored for a prodigious cavalcade of instruments including a glockenspiel, xylophone, a pair of cymbals, a suspended cymbal, tambourine, triangle, rasps, whip, wood block, three temple blocks, timpani, snare drum, bass drum and three bongo drums. Conductor-Composer Bernstein made the most of them; he went through his entire ballet routine on the podium and had the Philharmonic Orchestra playing like gods, and the Camerata Singers sounding like angels...
...Gaulle's ire, France, to step out of the snare, would have to abandon its whole campaign for swift completion of the Common Market farm plan-and the Eurocrats were certain the French would never agree to that. But a clever diplomat never says never. Last week, without a twitch of embarrassment, Couve de Murville blandly told his colleagues in Brussels that since the Rome Treaty provided until 1970 to complete an agricultural common market, France saw no reason why everyone should be in such a hurry to finish...
Only the percussion section was consistently attentive and spirited throughout the concert, especially the timpanist and the snare drummer, who managed to make the most pedestrian rhythmic punctuation sound fresh and vigorous...
...fact is, Stone has had such a long, painful look at the bowels of democracy that he's really almost sympathetic to officials, caught in the snare of political power. He sees them imprisoned in their roles--whether in Washington or Moscow or Peking--and, participating in government by concealment, scared to death to talk. "A flaming radical couldn't be happy in government unless he planned to burn himself on the steps of the treasury...