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...week's drama had two near-successes: on the Alcoa Hour, Thunder in Washington tried to pack into 60 minutes the entire story of a businessman in government, from his hopeful arrival, through his first miscues, to his humiliation before a Senate investigating committee. Author David Davidson struck boldly through the tangled swamp known as Conflict of Interest, but not even yeoman work by Melvyn Douglas and Ed Begley could make the main issues clear. Climax! starred Michael Rennie in Man of Taste, a melodrama about an art dealer who had a method for improving the price...
Back-country preachers still thunder against the evils of rum, Romanism and romance on the dance floor, and even sophisticated city preachers go in for melodramatics; when Joseph Stalin died, Pastor Wayne Dehoney of Birmingham's Central Park Baptist Church hauled a coffin into his sanctuary and preached a sermon on the evils of dictatorship (in newspaper ads he labeled it "Stalin's funeral oration"). But, on the whole, it is the new facts rather than the old, familiar figures of Southern Baptism that are important...
...Hoffmann sound better than many listeners thought possible. How he did it: he went light on such over-familiar numbers as the Barcarolle, took them perhaps a soupqon faster than usual, and when the drama got heavy, he made it even more dramatic by whipping the percussion section into thunder...
Magic Flute (1791) has Vienna witnessed the premiere of a major opera by an Austrian composer, but under such directors as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Clemens Kraus, it provided a unique climate for performance, fusing Italian fire, Teutonic thunder and Slavic melancholy into a mellowness all its own. For years, Vienna considered itself Richard Wagner's second Bayreuth; it took Bizet's Carmen and Massenet's Manon to its heart after Paris had cold-shouldered them...
...With the G.O.P. committed to flexible price supports, and Stevenson uncertain, Ave Harriman decided to take the lead in favor of rigid 90% supports, plus subsidy payments for some perishables, plus programs to stimulate consumption. But the day before Harriman was to deliver his speech, Stevenson stole his thunder...