Word: somberness
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...show arrives on Broadway this week that demonstrates all over again that the most potent theater in America is still song and dance. Michael Bennett's A Chorus Line began as the smash of the off-Broadway season (TIME, June 2). It tells a somber story, lining up 27 dancers in competition for eight roles and making them play show and tell. As each character speaks, the ambitions and frustrations of a lowly chorus dancer become synonymous with everyone's battle for a place in the sun. Yet A Chorus Line is both insouciant and seductive, full...
...Minister Harold Wilson paid homage to the new spirit of commitment to the EEC by bandying about a fancy French word-éclaircisse-ment (enlightenment). His unabashed Yorkshire pronunciation brought down the House of Commons with gales of laughter. Apart from that touch of trans-Channel humor, Wilson was somber in talking about the task ahead. "Our future," he said, "will depend on what we are prepared to do by our own efforts, our skill, our technocracy-and our restraint...
...Dorati herewith completes his collection of all the Haydn symphonies, one of the most successful and rewarding projects in the history of recording. Along the way, Dorati has offered many a joy. Among them are the zestful accounts of Symphonies Nos. 36-48 (Vol. 6), notably including the somber "Trauer" (No. 44), the amusing "Farewell" (No. 45) and the radiant "Maria Theresia " (No. 48), a rich collection of middle-period Haydn. He has also offered an "appendix" album, with alternate Haydn versions of this or that movement, including the finale of No. 103 ("Drumroll"). The appendix shows that as fast...
...decline in real income from both of these sources, coupled as it has been with inflation and a depressed stock market provoked a rather somber forecast by Hale Champion, financial vice president, in the annual financial report released last November...
...lovely bit of rascality-brief, definable, rightly punishable and done on the high seas, where U.S. men and machines still reign. The White House in its spring splendor looked like a Hollywood set. With somber visages and firm jaws, the actors hurried through the mellow night in their sleek black limousines. House Speaker Carl Albert, 5 ft. 5 in. tall, seemed at least 5 ft. 8 in. as he pondered American prestige on the White House steps. Senator John Sparkman was besieged by reporters after the President had told him the scenario for recapturing the ship and its crew. Others...