Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CANTO (2 LPs; London). A festive addition to the current revival of "beautiful singing," these 23 arias, duets and trios are by familiar composers (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Handel) as well as unfamiliar ones (Piccinni, Lampugnani, Bononcini, Shield). Joan Sutherland is the heroine of the album, her brilliant voice describing perfect arabesques in the stratosphere. Richard Conrad's flowing tenor blends beautifully with hers, and there is also ample opportunity to judge the fast-rising Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Home, whose range, power and flexibility are formidable but who is not yet in the same galaxy as Sutherland...
...Hasty Pudding Shows may only b- a revelat on of college fact when they stage boys dressed not as men but as fanciful women. Perhaps the female garments are not as unfamiliar to the Harvard male as one would suppose...
...available materials as wood, bone and ivory-which the body is usually quick to reject. Then doctors turned to refined metals. But the current mush rooming of alloplasty had to await the proliferation of synthetic plastics. Most of the materials now favored are the polymers (basically familiar molecules in unfamiliar, complex arrangements), such as nylon, Dacron and Plexiglas. But even more widely useful are the silicones,* which may be solid or as gooey as engine...
They laugh when the shy little man in the TV commercial steps up to the bar and orders Byrrh (pronounced beer) on the rocks-but the laughter does not last long. Byrrh is a French aperitif wine that has up to now been unfamiliar to Americans, but it is getting a big introduction from a company that knows what Americans like to drink and how to sell it to them: Hartford's Heublein, Inc. Heublein (pronounced Hue-bline) invented the ready-made cocktail, led the trend to vodka drinking in the U.S., and was among the first to take...
Stuffed with Shredded Paper. Many of the details are unfamiliar and fascinating. Strategically, for example, Werth rates the Battle of Kursk (north of Kharkov), in July 1943, as "Hitler's last chance to turn the tide," and thus as important as Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...