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Whatever their worth, the orchestra made the best of Ginastera's tricks. The orchestra had a splendid, fat and shiny sound which is distinctly a recent phenomenon. Conductor Henri Swoboda has the orchestra at his disposal, and puts it at the disposal of the music accurately...
...Bank of Italy under the immigrant Gianninis, and turned a substantial fortune speculating in stocks. On vacations in Mexico, he struck up a profitable palship with Manuel Avila Camacho, who, on becoming President in 1940, invited Pagliai to settle in Mexico and helped him start Mexico City's splendid Hipodromo de las Americas race track on an army parade ground. Avila Camacho's successor, Miguel Aleman, also became friendly with Pagliai, helped him to form his seamless tube company, TAMSA, in 1952, the year Aleman left office...
...term "stream of consciousnes literature." It is astonishing how Jamesian some passages of Miss Stein's essays on the art of writing sound. Surely the extent of the dalliance is clear beyond reasonable doubt. And if we can obtain the conviction, we must congratulate the father on his splendid brood. For Gertrude Stein did not spawn just one "natural" child but an unnaturally gifted litter of literary figures. Her American progeny include, by the way, such robust bastards as Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson...
...handshaking stage. Ultimately, the strain of staying out of bed becomes more intense than the pleasure of getting into it. Thus the play is incessantly torn between farce and pathos, and each of the two key players marks out one of these modes and acts in it with splendid isolation...
...terrifying enough; he is much too amiable. In preparing the love philter, for example, he innocents in the tone in which one normally makes introductions; at the end (I must not disclose the end), he sounds as if he were going on vacation. Otherwise, Mr. Skolnik is splendid. His patter is palpitating, his dancing delightful...