Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orchestra's response to his direction was often disappointing, for one reason or another. In the Mozart Piano concerto (K 271, in E flat) the very excellence of the soloist, a young Frenchwoman named Eveylne Crochet, made the Orchestra's contribution seem rather weak. Mile. Crochet's reading, a compendium of elegant phrasing, effortless roulades, and delicious, unforced tone (for which the piano is probably due some credit) was the performance of a knowing, sensitive professional. But the Orchestra is only a good civic ensemble, and hazy string entrances or out-of-tune winds naturally suffer in the face...
Twenty years ago G.V. Carey took a fling at drawing up his ideas on punctuation. Now he has updated and expanded his effort into a handy book, the best short compendium on the subject to be found anywhere. Carey regards punctuation as "governed two-thirds by rule and one-third by personal taste," and its first essential as conveying the meaning "to the reader's mind, through his eye, with the least possible delay and without any ambiguity." He feels that "the best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious...
...JAPANESE ART (Abrams; $25) and CHINESE PAINTING (Universe; $10) among the handsomest efforts. Pelican Books offers a monumental study, ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY: 1600-1750, for $12.50. Collins has a NEW TESTAMENT (de luxe, $50) exquisitely illustrated with tipped-in reproductions from medieval manuscripts, and Praeger a compendium of ARTISTS' TECHNIQUES ($12.50). New York Graphic provides a large Henry Moore sketchbook of HEADS, FIGURES AND IDEAS at $30, and a handsome color survey of Pre-Hispanic Mexican painting at $18. Altogether, they are almost enough to make the armchair viewer feel pleasantly footsore...
...correspondent to its U.S. staff, subscribes to the New York Times news service; the London Daily Express now has six reporters in the U.S.-four in New York, one in Washington and one on the West Coast-and has introduced a regular weekly feature called "Transatlantic Page, " a compendium of items about the U.S. The Sunday Express, which recently went to 24 pages (from an average 16), has devoted much of the extra space to U.S. coverage, keeps a fulltime correspondent, Arthur Brittenden in New York City...
Tuesday night an attenuated compendium of Schneider deadbeats returned to prove that in the interim they had not lost their spirit nor their courage. From its opening number, "Billboard March," to its concluding piece, "Pandemonium by All," the band was superb...