Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia Orchestra, under Eugene Ormandy; Columbia). A rare LP recording of one of the early Prokofiev symphonies all but forgotten in Western concert halls. The composer here is less acerbic, more expansive than in the Scythian Suite or Love for Three Oranges, and the score is curiously uneven, mingling occasional film-score banalities with splendid rhythmic inventions...
...Despite uneven acting styles and some amateurish makeup, which displayed wild, fake jungles of beard, the whole added up to an exciting show, with much credit going to the program's unobtrusive but incisive commentator, Harvard University's Dean of Arts and Sciences, McGeorge Bundy, making his TV debut. A cold, well-spoken orator of his own words, Bundy concluded: "The presidency is a superb instrument of action, and it takes a man to wield it . . . He shall have power-but only with our help...
...based index; the August decline, in turn, was revised downward to two points instead of the one point previously estimated. Thus, the three-point drop in two months was almost as sharp as monthly changes during the early stages of the last recession in 1957-58. Reflecting the uneven pace of the U.S. economy, there were declines in the output of steel and other primary metals, while production advances were chalked up by autos, TV sets and home radios...
...almost unknown novel, unpublished in the Soviet Union, called The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, which Ehrenburg wrote in 1927 when he had taken a leave of absence from Communist Russia and was living in Paris. Now available in English for the first time, the book shows, despite uneven translation, what a considerable comic talent has been squandered on the gloomy chores of propaganda...
...Ornette's surprisingly wide and uneven reputation has been built chiefly on three albums whose titles sug gest the experimental nature of his work: Atlantic's The Shape of Jazz to Come, and Contemporary Records' Tomorrow Is the Question! and Something Else! (jazz lingo for a musician whose work is highly inventive, as compared to one who is merely "taking care of business"). What the Five Spot audiences heard last week was clearly "something else"-music compounded of wildly asymmetrical melodies, lurching and truncated rhythms, tone colors as varied and highly personal as the sound...