Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your May 28 story on the signing of the Fair Campaign Practices Code by Len Hall and Paul Butler made sprightly reading, but it ignored some important points. Our code is not designed to turn bigots and demagogues to sweet reasonableness but set up a standard against which to measure them. If politicians want to use the code as a club and beat each other with it, swell...
...conversations in which you sought to encourage me to gather more spiritual than earthly goods. How right you were! Where have all earthly treasures gone? Vanished like a cloud of vapor . . . I do not fear death. I fear it only as it affects you and our beloved sweet children...
...best modern violins have all the qualities of a fine Strad: instant response, no dead spots in the range from bottom to top, no perceptible difference in quality from string to string, a potentially sweet, powerful tone, and visual beauty. Despite all this, fiddlers often will not like the finished instruments, or if they do, they may not play them in public. Explained
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book (Verve, 2 LPs). Thirty-two sophisticated songs, sweet, hot and tough, sung with the utmost simplicity by the queen of popular singers. The Fitzgerald method, in her own words, is to "just sing," and at least half of her poignance comes from the fact that she sings right in the heart of the note (instrumentalists like to say they tune up to her notes). Strangely enough, she can breathe right in the middle of a phrase and get away with it-a nice way of suggesting that she is not so sophisticated...
Circus is a simple, romantic ballet, set to some suitable music by France's Jacques Ibert, laid in a village square of placardized baroque, and dressed in costumes that suggest the saltimbanques of Picasso. It is pretty and sweet, but not too sweet. As the play begins, Pierrot (Kelly) appears in his baggy white costume to open the program of a teatro circo, an Italian traveling circus. With the stilted gestures of mimetic tradition, he tells of his hopeless love for the leading lady of the troupe (Sombert), hopeless because she loves the daring aerialist (Youskevitch...