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...disappointing. I have always felt that an orchestral arrangement of chamber music should utilize the full orchestral sonorities. If the arrangement is merely an attempt to approximate the original sound of the piece, we have a right to ask for the original instrumentation instead. A transcription, I believe, is valid only if it expresses the music in a new way. Thursday's rendition failed because it was little more than a muddy caricature of the real thing. The performance, however, was reasonably good. Stanger's directing lacked excitement because he didn't have much to work with...
Last week, aiming at both sneakers and stumblers, the State Department restricted all travel behind the Iron Curtain (previously only unauthorized trips to Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Red China had been banned). Hereafter, passports will be stamped Not Valid for visits to Russia and the seven Red satellites unless the traveler has first consulted State and received specific permission for Iron Curtain travel...
Profane Blast. The term "shoestring Air Force" irritated Congressmen who had appropriated a total of $35 billion for the U.S. Air Force since 1946. But in terms of the enemy's newly revealed seven-league boots, the point was all too valid. All last summer Vandenberg tried to make the other Joint Chiefs see the peril as he saw it. Sometimes, after a no-progress session, he would come back to his office, hurl his cap on a chair, and let loose a profane blast of despair...
Zoning Commission meets in secret, for no valid reason...
...last four of these are valid G.E. aims as set down in the original plan, while the first is the aim of a survey course. Thirty-four percent of those asked thought the first was most important...