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...better than 40% today by playing on the cancer scare with "deceptive" and "misleading" ads. Actually, said the committee, "the filter cigarette smoker is, in most cases, getting as much or more nicotine and tar than he would get from the regular cigarette the advertisers have persuaded him to abandon-for his health's sake...
...counteract the bad news. Stacked up in the custody of Ike's public-works assistant, Major General (ret.) John S. Bragdon, were detailed plans for several billion dollars worth of public-works projects, ready for sending to Congress on short notice. But the Administration saw no reason to abandon its long-standing basic position: I) eased credit, stepped-up defense spending and underlying economic strengths will get things perking up by midyear, and 2) drastic, too-much-too-soon recovery programs might fuel a new spiral of inflation. The decision: a reassuring statement by the President, plus a token...
Aside from its tendency to jargon, the trouble with verbal music criticism, says Keller, is that it tends to describe musical forms but fails to penetrate beyond them to the "fundamental unity" at the heart of a composition. To lay music's "inner architecture" bare, the critic must abandon language ("The age of description is over") and so immerse himself in analysis of a work that he "lives with it and dreams about...
...stage-center spot. By the time Act II's libretto called for Corelli to draw his sword in defiance of Christoff (who played Philip II, Don Carlos' father), both singers were ready to fight. They drew, and Verdi was forgotten as the prop swords swished with real abandon. The impromptu dialogue was splendid: "Criminal! Madman! You're trying to disembowel me! I'll crack your skull!" Winner: Corelli, who got only a scratch, sent Christoff sulking off with a bloody hand. Boomed the basso later: "He was standing too close; simply to make him draw back...
INGE BORKH, 36, a big-voiced, big-framed German soprano, sings brilliantly in such muscular roles as Elektra and Salome, overacts with boisterous Germanic abandon. Last week, in her Met debut, she acted a coarse-grained Salome. She danced enthusiastically, handled her voice intelligently and, in the final long soliloquy, sang with exquisite beauty...