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Enthusiasm and confidence, indeed, were a distinctive feature of the evening. In the first half of the program, the orchestra, solus, attacked the more-than-Mozartian Beethoven with refreshing vigor. Too often enthusiasm is the mark of the obvious (like Sir Arthur Sullivan) or the sloppy (like Dmitri Mitropolous). But the HRO has struck a balance: their performance of the Second Symphony was robust and remarkably successful. Mr. Senturia's tempos were well chosen, his dynamics well modulated, his orchestra's tone large and rich. And if the winds sometimes seemed a bit lost, the strings were at their best...
Through the Roof. By early 1962, Labor Department experts predict, the unemployment rate may well slide below 5%. A major factor in creating more jobs should be the new vigor displayed by the construction business, which now accounts for one-ninth of the gross national product. Spending on new construction of all kinds has risen more than 40% from the recession's depths last February, is expected to hit $57 billion this year and $60 billion next year...
...message is a powerful and significant one. But it is almost lost in the unparalleled wealth of obscenity that surrounds and even infiltrates it. Is the obscenity just a quirk that must be overlooked if one does not like it? Miller projects it with considerable vigor, and it seems rooted deeply in his personality. But again, it is not a debauched degeneracy; nor does he use it in a spirit of scorn and repudiation. It is of life generally, a matter of humor, neither malicious nor perverted. It is included because this too is a part of life that...
Nokin is a trained accountant, engineer and economist who combines openminded vigor with abiding respect for the conventions that have made La Générale one of the world's most powerful corporations. "Our tradition is to invest in new things that are sure," says Max Nokin. "Our tradition prevents us from being rash...
...fabric of history, which T. S. Eliot stretched upon a strangely spiritual frame, is restored to a more human and traditional shape by Richard Corum's brilliant direction of Murder in the Cathedral. Corum's work gains its vigor by rejecting Eliot's theological interpretation of Becket's martyrdom. From a poetically beautiful but theatrically impossible play, he has created an intellectually indecisive drama of enormous power...