Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a questioner at the Moscow World Youth Festival inquired about the "degenerate American comic-strip and rock-'n'-roll culture," top-ranking Red novelist and Propagandist llya Ehrenburg spoke mildly, once again showed himself to be an indicator of the changeable Soviet climate: "Whoever asked that question doesn't understand American culture, which has nothing to do with rock 'n' roll or comic strips. American culture is represented by Whitman, Dreiser, Hemingway^ and other men of genius." Continued the many-faced Ehrenburg, who toured the U.S. in 1946, roasted it for its slums...
...wealthy strip of Eastern Seaboard where Lanin usually roams, the demand for his services is fiercely competitive. He has solid bookings as far ahead as 1963, verbal engagements up to 1968. The mammas book him for their infant daughters' debuts in the same way that the papas book their infant sons for Yale; Lanin rechecks each booking a year or two before the scheduled date just in case "they haven't been clipping their coupons...
...business as described in countless TV shows, movies, novels and magazine stories that draw drama from the roar of the blast furnace or the power play in the executive suite. There is room on the bestseller list for a socio-economic study-The Organization Man, Judd Saxon, a comic strip based on business, runs in 160 newspapers. Yet, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard complained last week: "The daily press just doesn't seem to be set up to look in depth into business problems...
Performance & Tradition. The St. Thomas Choir has sometimes been criticized on the grounds that its stringent interpretations strip Bach's music of emotion. The more lyrical school of Bach interpreters-including Karl Richter of the Munich Bach Choir and U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick-insist that Bach should be played more dynamically. "Thomas performs Bach," says one critic; ''Richter celebrates him." Actually, Cantor Thomas is a more venturesome man than some of his predecessors at Leipzig. After Bach's death, says the 28th cantor of the 15th, his music was almost completely forgotten until Mendelssohn discovered...
...director mustn't show off, and embarrass his actors by getting laughs at their expense. Nothing reveals people so much as when they are trying to be something they are not. Actors have to perform a spiritual strip-tease in rehearsals, and the director should handle them on a clinical basis and with antiseptic sympathy--like a doctor with neurotic patients...