Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archibald took several sections considerably faster than Copland himself used to, and in the process introduced quite a few wrong notes. But his over-all concept of the work's structure and impetus yielded a more unified result than when the composer played it. This is achievement enough for a young pianist...
...raging summer storm. Deserving of Favorite Sleuth status: Detective Nathan Shapiro of Homicide. Manhattan West, a shambling, sad-eyed man who suspects that he is not really up to his job and ought to be pounding a beat in Brooklyn. Shapiro asks what seem to be all the wrong questions-but he ends up with all the right answers...
This campaign of intimidation ran for only a few days before Arizona's Stewart Udall, Democratic leader of the swing group, told Zagri off. "You've got a nerve to go calling my state and telling people I'm voting wrong," he snapped. Zagri brazened it out: ''I'm going to get you in line." Udall exploded as never before in Congress, raked Zagri over until the lobbyist obsequiously agreed that he had voted right. Another Congressman was treated to anonymous threats ("We're going to fix you") on his home and office...
...Force making purposeful experiments in eugenics. But this can be dismissed as another example of Shaw's tendency to exaggerate, to generalize, and to dogmatize about matters concerning which he knew nothing, and as another proof that the canny old master was not least brilliant when he was most wrong...
Unfortunately, Myra Mailloux seems all wrong as Patty O'Neill. There is nothing naive or innocent in this characterization; nor, for that matter, is there anything genuinely worldly. Miss Mailloux has a way of delivering her lines that makes one doubt that she really knows what she is saying. The result in an ingenuous Patty, wide-eyed but blank...