Word: surly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like all Carter's music - save for his early Eight Etudes and a Fantasy - the Quartet is music of mind-numbing difficulty. It is practically impossible to hum or whistle, and almost impossible to play. Experiencing the drama of its dense inner layers and illusory sur faces - superbly captured by the Juilliard - is like viewing late Beethoven through an atonal prism. The power is there. So is the higher mathematics of Carter's intricate organizational scheme. As to deep feeling, and perhaps something of lovability, only time and richer acquaintance will tell...
Outward Courtesy. The week's resumed negotiations had begun bleakly enough, with none of the smiles and handshakes that had characterized the autumn meetings. No one greeted Kissinger when he arrived at the Communist villa in exurban Gif-sur-Yvette on the first morning, and he had to open the door himself. Next day at St.-Nom-La-Brêteche, the Americans received the North Vietnamese with similar coolness. By midweek, however, a measure of outward courtesy had returned. On Saturday morning, for the first time in the talks, Kissinger sent for an American-embassy photographer to take...
...villa near the Paris suburb of Gif-sur-Yvette, Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho quickly arrived at the draft of a nine-point agreement. It was not yet a full accord; some vital details were yet to be filled in. But it constituted a major breakthrough. The plan separated the purely military issues from the political ones; it provided for an in-place cease-fire that would end the major fighting immediately, a U.S. withdrawal and the return of the American prisoners of war within 60 days, and for the establishment of a purposefully vague...
...villa in Gif-sur-Yvette, an alternate site, the networks erected a 16-ft. scaffold in the hope of getting a shot of Kissinger and the North Vietnamese strolling behind the garden wall. One CBS cameraman found an orphanage behind the villa and promised to support one of the children for a year (at $10 a month) in return for a vantage point on the building's roof...
...Lacking any formal announcements of either final agreement or impasse, newsmen concentrated on the omens-and they were ambiguous. As Kissinger emerged from one session, a nearly all-black cat jumped atop his Cadillac limousine. At another meeting in the private home of an American jeweler in fashionable Neuilly-sur-Seine, Kissinger pointed at the ceiling and said with a puckish smile: "When the light bulb starts blinking, it means we have to change the tape." As the North Vietnamese laughed, Kissinger assured them the room was not bugged...