Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marteau created a mild sensation at its first performance three years ago. After an interval in which Webern's fame has grown tremendously, Boulez' piece has become more accessible, although it remains a rather tough puzzle. Certainly it has far more surface attraction than the Stockhausen recorded here: Boulez call for alto flute, xylorymba, vibraphone, guitar, viola, and several exotic percussion instruments. Four of the nine sections are settings of surrealistic poetry by Rene Char; the contralto Margery MacKay displays here an engagingly warm and sensuous voice. Practically all of the music moves at a furious tempo; this speed, coupled...
Well Booked. Nixon's trip to Alaska topped a tough and exhausting U.S. campaign effort. For five weeks Nixon had been on the road, working and speaking for Republican candidates. Last week his tour took him to Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he spoke to 18,000, thence to Wichita, Kans., Billings, Mont. and Everett, Wash. Between speeches he found time to chat about everything from the future of Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy ("He has done much for his party. I don't think his religion [Roman Catholic] will affect his national aspirations") to his preference for sports...
Benjamin has been working hard, according to McCurdy, and should be "tough." Were he to win tomorrow, it would be the first time a Crimson runner has won all his races during the course of a season...
Another light first brightened by the Europeans is the double version-one for export, one for domestic consumption. The code is still strong enough so that U.S. viewers of Cry Tough will see Linda Cristal with a blouse on instead of bare to the waist when she does her love scene with John Saxon. But Hollywood, faced with the stinging competition of TV and foreign films, is in the mood to shed any garments that seem to get in the way at the box office...
...resistance. Other uses under way or planned: ball bearings, piston heads, curtain walls for skyscrapers, bulkheads for nuclear ships. Most convincing demonstration to housewives of Pyroceram's properties: heating pots of it red-hot with an acetylene torch, then plunging them into ice water. Next housewares project: equally tough but fragile appearing tableware styled like costly china...