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...Curious Whimper. The 50-minute work, performed without interruption, is more an oratorio than a symphony, with speaker (Bernstein's wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre), soprano (Jennie Tourel), the New England Conservatory Chorus, the Columbus Boychoir and a drastically altered orchestra: 17 string players were crowded off the platform to make way for a percussion section that had to man five timpani, three side drums, a bass drum, four kinds of cymbals, a tam-tam, three bongos, three temple blocks, a wood block, sandpaper blocks, rasp, whip, ratchet, triangle, maracas, claves, tambourine, chimes, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, piano and harp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Boy with Cheek | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...poor Munch tried to lead rehearsals. "Beaucoup mieux, Charles," Lenny called down from the balcony, then finally took the baton himself for one of the last run-throughs. "Wonderful! Marvelous! Beyond my greatest expectation!" Lenny cried when all was ready. And indeed, when the music dissolved into the curious whimper that closes the work, Boston's well-dowagered matinee audience gave Bernstein and all the performers a nonstop 15-minute ovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Boy with Cheek | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...Whimpering Puppies. In The Golden Fruits, the delivery of a critical opinion can be an appeal for love-or an attempt at assassination. A fashionable author, who has been unwise enough to admit he does not like the book, is forced to cling to a dowdy female guest for support. Even as he does so, he burns with shame and a sense of "degrading promiscuity." As for the woman, "she listens to him," Miss Sarraute writes, with the "face of a rapt fanatic . . . and an inadequately furnished head into which come to settle perhaps, taking up all the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mayhem & Manners | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...last, too . . . All the time he was making love to me. Feebly, but tenderly." Lewis got up, lurched into the night, and returned with a bottle of cognac, which he could not manage to open. "Suddenly he looked at me. His eyes were like red moons. He started to whimper. 'I cannot ruin your life . . . you are wholly good . Get up-you mustn't stay here-I will take you home . . . Tomorrow I will go away . . . You will never see me again. I am finished . . .' I saw he could not take me home . . . And so I went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teller of Tales | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...withdraw his state police and replace them with contingents of the National Guard. Early the next morning, President Kennedy signed a proclamation that federalized the guard. On his orders, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara simply retired the guardsmen to their armories. Wallace, shorn of his troops, gave up with a whimper. "I can't fight bayonets with my bare hands," he cried, ignoring the fact that there had not been a federal bayonet to be seen anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Civil Rights Rights: More Anticlimax Than Crisis | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

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