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Random House can also rightfully claim that although its words are fewer, many are newer. It includes such current terms as the Yiddish chutzpa ("unmitigated effrontery or impudence"), ye-ye ("of, pertaining to, or characteristic of young sophisticates"), and even Mary Poppins' supercalifragilisticexpi-alidocious ("used as a nonsense word by children to represent the longest word in English...
MENDELSSOHN: ELIJAH (Angel). In a superb recording, Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the Royal Society Orchestra in highlights only, but the cuts are not really missed: Sir Malcolm wisely opts for the graceful Mendelssohnian airs; Soprano Elizabeth Harwood gives a limpid account of "Hear ye. Israel"; John Shirley-Quick delivers "Is not his word like a fire" in an opulent basso style. The only low points, in fact, are the hammer-heavy choruses, which remind the listener that this florid form was not really suited to the urbane Mendelssohn, and that when he essayed heroism he often made only noise...
...appetite-whetting thing." The curtain raiser was the world premiere of Fantasy, a short, four-movement suite "in homage to an earlier England" by Composer Virgil Thomson. After a drum roll and a flurry of brass, the music settled down to a sober exercise in what might be called ye olde atonality, a weaving and heaving of dissonant strings with baroque-style embellishments. It was Purcell in modern dress with the stitches showing...
...success. In any case, Shriver has no doubts that it is worth fighting. Disturbed by the criticism that has plagued him from the first, Shriver confided during a recent audience with the Pope: "Some people are quoting the Bible against us in the poverty war, saying, The poor always ye have with you.' " Did His Holiness know an effective rejoinder to that? He did indeed. "Tell them," enjoined Paul, "that they are also commanded by the Bible to feed the hungry and clothe the naked...
...little calypso." Then, with cracking, lackluster tenor and a backing of RCA trumpets, or fiddle and humming voices, he croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here's the mail that came today/ His silver wings and green beret; Come all ye young maidens, and hear my sad tale/ 'Bout a brave young trooper whose 'chute did fail"). If Viet Nam has produced a true war poet, he is no doubt too busy fighting to write...