Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were beginning to direct their nose for news toward a malodorous situation: the bad records of the Communists in the Chamber of Deputies. A onetime resistance hero named Edgardo Sogno began it with his Pace e Libertá campaign (TIME, Nov. 1). Last week Rome's influential II Tempo took up the history of bald and boisterous Vincenzo Moscatelli, a Communist Deputy and member of the party's Central Committee. In 1932 Comrade Moscatelli was caught by Mussolini's police and sentenced to 16 years in prison; that gave him a certain claim to fame...
Mama Doll Song (Patti Page; Mercury). Mother instinct takes over, with bosomy Patti lovingly imitating the cry of a mechanical doll in waltz tempo, all undisturbed by Freudian implications. Bestseller-bound...
...also a liability. For it impedes the farcical explosiveness needed for so plot-heavy a yarn, and-brash even where it is funny-the wisecracking prevents Reclining Figure from being elegant or urbane. Writing of 57th Street, Playwright Kurnitz has caught Broadway's tone while missing its tempo...
...Italians seemed fairly baffled by the refined music and the obscure Jamesian plot, made no clearer by the strange language (the libretto, by Welsh-English Writer Myfanwy Piper, was sung in English). But the audience politely brought the fine English cast back for eight curtain calls. Wrotem Il Tempo of Britten's score: "A type of anthology of modern musical taste." Corriere della Sera applauded Britten's "sinister castle of sounds," but found it "difficult to establish even approximately what the new opera is meant to signify...
...instant. In printing a list of "lavatory literature," i.e., pocket-size picture magazines published by the "capitalist press," Critic Platt made the mistake of including Jet, the breezy Negro weekly (TIME, Sept. 22, 1952) that can lift a skirt with the best of them (e.g., People Today, Bold, Tempo). Platt was promptly brought to task by a letter from a couple of Worker readers accusing him of a "sectarian, white-chauvanist error...