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Even better was the Debussy Sonata No. 3. Playing like a professional, Miss Colish took the tricky rhythms in her stride and exhibited a rich, livid tone that had been absent earlier in the evening. Skillful modulation of phrasing and dynamics, ranging from sudden bold contrasts to the subtlest of nuances, helped to make the sonata a glowing and multicolored organism...
...neither simple nor obvious. The artist, however, must in no case insist upon this "real meaning"; though he has grasped it fully, his performance must have the fluency and calculated nonchalance which are the signs of restraint and cultivation. If he exceeds these bounds in any but the subtlest manner he questions the ability of a presumably equally cultivated audience to grasp the clusive substance beneath the "obvious" phrase...
...animate on the screen the characters in Thurber's cartoons. The Unicorn in the Garden-directed by Bill Hurtz of Stephen Bosustow's gifted crew at U.P.A., which has in the last two years produced Gerald McBoing-Boing, Mr. Magoo and The Tell Tale Heart-is the subtlest of the lot. The Thurber Male looks just as he always does-browbeaten by the Thurber Female, and the unicorn is so attractive that he will make Thurber fans wish Bosustow & Co. would try The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble, The Bear Who Let It Alone and The Fairly...
...older woman meeting a younger one sees an image of her own lost youth, a little boy blurts out the awkward truth that a tableful of grownups has been avoiding, a house decays, a love dies, a ritual is born. Using the subtlest of baits, Author Pierce comes away with the novelist's prize catch, a bit of life at the end of almost every line...
...portrait of Felix is surely one of the subtlest, wittiest and kindliest of a civil servant in a long time, and the story of his reluctant, harassed but courageous progress through the murderous fiddle-de-dee of the year 406 is told without a word out of place. As an extra dividend, the book is clearly intended for reading as an oblique comment on the British character, and especially on the modern British bureaucracy. Author Duggan seems to suggest that, given a bowler and bumbershoot to go with his tidy, official face, Felix might patter along Downing Street without winning...