Word: sours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking for. The violins were most exuberant, accenting the opening theme just right, and the woodwinds--especially the flutes and those juicy clarinets--phrased things well in the many interchanges. It is too bad, then, that several instruments failed at critical moments: the tranquille violin solo going sour, wrong notes spoiling a cello phrase, the horns (after hitting everything else) slurping the octave in their famous solo, an oboe flatting a chord, and most obtrusively, a trumpet missing its jarring D-flat (as if the Don were stabbed with a broken sword.) But these little disasters were exceptions, due probably...
Between the flat, metallic blasts of occasional mortar shells, the only sound in the camp was the rustle of rats shuffling over sleeping men. In the rifle pits behind the sandbagged perimeter of Plei Me, weary defenders sniffed the sour stench of cordite and unwashed clothes and grumbled about the duty. "Shut up," said a grizzled major. "This is what we're getting paid for." An enlisted man chuckled in the darkness. "Yeah, anybody who don't like the cooking can go right out the gate...
John's Ban. Suhard started the experiment in 1944, and at its peak in 1953 the movement numbered more than 100 priests. But from Rome's point of view, it went sour. Twenty priests left the church to get married. Others were taking part in strikes and Communist demonstrations-for example, protesting the arrival of General Matthew B. Ridgway as chief of NATO...
...with Cuba's independence and leadership. In the early days of the revolution, Castro and Guevara were virtually inseparable, one the compulsive man of action, the other the cool, brainy tactician. Some wags called the Argentine Guevara a "Gau-cho Marx," but they said it with a sour smile. Che was in the original rebel band in the Sierra Maestra mountains in 1956, the man who mapped Castro's guerrilla tactics against Dictator Fulgencio Batista and became world-famous for his handbook of dirty tricks, La Guerra de Guerrillas. He was Cuba's first economic czar, running...
...Sour Notes. At last week's annual High Fidelity Music Show at Manhattan's Trade Show Building, there was a raft of compact all-in-one hi-fi units that cost between $200 and $400 and almost never sound a sour note. With two bookshelf-sized stereo speakers and one compact changer-amplifier unit, the new small-fi's can fit almost anywhere, be operated by the wife and the kids, and still give Dad the kind of sound that he yearns...