Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pondful of gleaming new boats, an avant-garde children's playground, the Macy-furnished ranch house, rows of shining 1959 cars, and the 360° Circarama film, a leftover from the Brussels World Fair, which has been updated by Walt Disney and fitted out with a Russian sound track. On opening day, uniformed girls handed out free Pepsi-Colas from gaily painted kiosks. More than 60,000 red begonia, white chrysanthemum and blue ageratum plants splashed color through the exhibits-not out of any special patriotic fervor, but because they are the most abundant flowers in Moscow at this...
...Music (The Chamber Brass Players; Classic Editions, mono). Two trumpets, a trombone, a French horn and a tuba huff their way through the once enormously popular brass works of several composers, some famed, most of them forgotten-Tielman Susato, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antony Hoiborne, Johann Petzold, Henry Purcell. The burnished sound is properly refulgent, and the flowering, agile compositions themselves will come as a pleasant surprise to many a listener accustomed to the statelier, stuffier uses of modern brass...
...Weber: Serenade for Strings (The Galimir String Quartet with David Walter, contrabassist; Epic, mono and stereo). A sinewy, appealing excursion into atonality by one of the foremost U.S. members of the club. For three movements, Composer Weber has his strings weaving melancholy, attenuated fretworks of sound, giving way in the fourth movement to a darkly swelling choir and in the finale to a spasmodically defiant march. Fascinating, if a trifle low in body heat...
...hour and a half, 64-year-old "Corny" Shields talked. First, he laid down the practical tips and techniques picked up since he learned to singlehand a 28-footer as a 14-year-old on Long Island Sound and went on to become a legendary figure, a man who may well have sailed-and won-more races than anyone in the sport's history. Corny Shields spoke of the jib ("Don't trim it flat-you need a nice little cup in it''). He gave a captain's cold advice on picking a crew...
...basic industry last week shuttered up the mills that produce the bulk of its steel, the broad-based U.S. economy was so sound in its nonsteel elements that it suffered few serious effects. In Washington high Administration economists predicted that the walkout would not imperil the economic boom-unless it lasts a painfully long time. But the shutdown immediately began to produce a stock of troubles...