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TELEVISION, which can never get quite enough talent, is currently getting a mighty dollop of it from one man. He is a playwright, director, actor; a veteran of the West End, Broadway and Hollywood; wit, linguist, dialectician and a mimic who can echo anything from a talking dog to a racing car. For an account of his prolific adventures in TV and elsewhere, see TELEVISION AND RADIO, Busting Out All Over...
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé (Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor). The most durable of modern movie scores gets a chiseled performance by Conductor Reiner's fine orchestra, which admirably illuminates all of the music's dry wit without detracting from its romping exuberance...
...years. Their uninhibited quarrels and their nonstop intellectual creativity made one of the spectacles of the 18th century-and only now has their menage had the brilliant attention it deserves. Voltaire in Love is Nancy Mitford's most searching book. On the surface it is all polish and wit; underneath it is solid history...
...duet in La Traviata (TIME, Feb. 17). The pitch was dropping so fast at one point, Critic Lang had written, that it seemed as if the singers were about to land in the conductor's lap. Bernstein's complaint about this display of "great authority and chilling wit": Barioni was indeed off key, but he was sharping, not flatting. "Here is a critic who heard a man singing too low when 3,000 people were ... in the Metropolitan Opera House hearing him singing too high . . . Now the first thing you would expect from a critic who draws...
...behold the wonders of the universe." Then up rose a Senator who had recently beheld the wonders of the universe with Washington's keenest political eye. As the opening order of business. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson moved consideration of a senatorial first step into space, to wit, his own resolution, establishing a Senate special committee on Astronautical and Space Exploration. Under Lyndon Johnson's sure hand the motion carried 78-1; Louisiana's Allen J. Ellender, who opposes all new committees on principle, saw no reason to make an exception for outer space...