Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite a slightly slow start, the first movement did not drag under Swoboda's baton, and the orchestra produced sounds with shapes totally absent in the performance of the Beethoven. The orchestra had a few problems: the strings sounded a little thin and scattered in the extreme upper register during the fourth movement, while the low woodwinds occasionally picked the wrong notes. But Swoboda and the orchestra did capture the excitement and variety of the larger forms within each movement, and the Brahms, which ended the program, mitigated the effects of the Beethoven...
...Argoup, 25 miles southeast of San'a, where 500 Yemenis commanded by Prince Abdullah attacked an Egyptian position on top of a sheer-sided hill that was fortified with six So viet T-54 tanks, a dozen armored cars and entrenched machine guns. The Yemenis, advancing in a thin skirmish line, were plastered by artillery, mortars and strafing planes. They could reply only with rifles, one mortar with 20 rounds, and a bazooka with four rounds-handled by a man who had never fired a bazooka before in his life. The fight for El Argoup lasted a week...
...polished aluminum; parts made of magnesium were plated with yellow gold. Its solar panels were reddish purple, like wings of a giant butterfly, and gay little highlights sparkled all over its structure. Unseen in its golden hexagonal abdomen were electronic muscles, organs, brains and ganglia, woven together with hair-thin wire. Mariner I, designed for windless and weightless space, looked delicate, but when folded in the chrysalis position, it could take G forces that would crush that juicy colloid, the human body...
This review is written as of the second public performance, yesterday's, which went superbly on a radiant afternoon, one of June's rarest days. Last Saturday's was marred by a thin but persistently drizzling rain...
...subtly presages the fourth, but a prodigious deal of dross is stuffed to fill the gap between them. Characters pass the time mysteriously hiding information from each other in innumerable false suspenses, or alternatively describing over and over what has been going on. When these devices begin to wear thin, Babe returns to the stage a crew of tedious mystics who repeat each other's lines after the familiar pattern of the Western--you know: "It's quiet out here tonight." "Yeah, too quiet...