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Veteran Soviet Character Actor Evgeny Samoilov, 53, certainly seemed out of character that night in Moscow's Mayakovsky Theater. A few days later, readers of the Evening Moscow knew why. "Dear Comrade Editor," Samoilov wrote remorsefully. "I was not sober for the evening performance. My delinquency defames the title of Soviet actor." In the future, moaned Samoilov, who holds three Stalin Prizes, "I will wash out this stain with my work...
Last week the Boschaps performed a rich, tastefully executed program at Manhattan's Town Hall. In Benjamin Britten's Fantasy for Oboe and Strings, the trio of strings spun delicately interlocking webs around the oboe's sober solo; Francis Poulenc's sprightly Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone was charmingly carried off like the playful banterings of back-fence gossips. The evening's major piece, Schubert's String Quintet in C, grew out of the stage like a tree of sound, alive and shapely in every line. The musicians played as it is seldom...
...deny so derisively the right of the Senate and the good American people to question our role in the Viet Nam war? What you do to Senator Fulbright is an atrocity. Senators Fulbright, Church, Gore and Morse appeal to a lot of us as sane, sober thinkers...
...unfailing courtesy. "I never give orders," he once said. "I sell my ideas to my associates if I can." He generally could, and many of his ideas still stand as guiding principles for G.M. In the auto industry's infancy, Henry Ford produced economical, unchanging, sober-styled Model Ts for a mass market. It was Sloan who first sensed that Americans wanted something more than mere wheels and a combustion engine. "Mr. Ford," he later recalled, "failed to realize that it was necessary for new cars to do more than meet the need for basic transportation. Middle-income buyers...
...character of a book which may be several hundred pages long. Specialized books of non-fiction don't need eye-catching jackets, for scientific and scholarly works are usually purchased for their academic reputations. The jackets of such books must convey simply the competence of their contents through sober design. But the typical reader of fiction is looking for entertainment, so fiction jackets must promise reading pleasure to undecided browsers...