Word: unkindnesses
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...Dutch movie exhibitors found an effective answer to unkind movie critics. Two Hague movie houses took a sizable ad in a morning paper quoting from four unfavorable reviews by Hague critics and five favorable reviews by Amsterdam critics. The home and office telephone numbers of the Hague critics were printed, and readers who disagreed with them were respectfully urged to call up the critics and discuss the matter. By week's end one distraught Hague critic, with a ringing in his ear, was planning...
Nobody was unkind enough to stress the fact that Rome's long-dreamed-of subway was a mere seven miles long (only 3^ miles of it underground) and apparently designed to carry its passengers from nowhere to nowhere. Built well away from the heart of the city where the real traffic congestion lies, its ten stations (with such impressive names as Colosseum and Circus Maximus) trail out in a dreary anticlimax through Rome's environs to the great cluster of derelict, half-completed marble buildings which Mussolini once hoped would become the site of a permanent World...
...building they had erected on the site of the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The bronze was Moore's controversial King and Queen (TIME. March i), a cleft-headed, paper-thin pair of half-humans on a bench. After the superintendent reported that 75% of the tenants were saying unkind things about it, the Uris brothers resignedly had the bronze hauled back to the dealer. "I still think it's lovely," Percy Uris explained last week, "but after all, the tenants are our customers...
...were kind and her hands were gentle as she fed the boys and undressed them for bed. Grandfather frowned on play and thought the boys should learn to work. "When I was their age . . ." he often used to begin. Grandmother knew that Grandfather didn't mean to be unkind, but often he seemed rough because, as he had once admitted to her helplessly, "I can't think of anything to say to them...
Listener's Digest is subtitled "The exciting new short cut to great music." The cut is not only short but unkind: the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (in a ragged performance by the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli) runs a mere three minutes-minus the development section, where, in effect, the composer explains what his music is about. Overall cut: from 32 minutes to 14. Other emasculated masterpieces: Franck's D Minor Symphony (38 to 14), Brahms's First Symphony (38 to 15), Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto...