Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cars, clothes and food for the rebels. The second phase is scheduled to begin when the F.L.N. can take, and hold, a sliver of Algerian territory from the French. Then the Soviet Union will undertake to supply the F.L.N. openly. Khrushchev reportedly said: "Once you fully occupy a little bit of Algeria, however tiny it may be, victory is assured. The rest will be just fooling around." So far. Red China has only supplied cash, which enables the F.L.N. to buy weapons in the illegal arms markets of Naples, Hamburg and Antwerp...
...trying to save anybody. He merely wants to suggest that the missionary mentality, which he believes to be an American complex, is at best childish and at worst ineffective. The idea is scarcely original, but Dassin expresses it in a wonderful rush of animal spirits and earthy humor. (Best bit: a scene in which an aging trollop recounts her favorite dream. "I get married to a man 84 years old," she says wistfully. "He has a little money, and-do I get a rest!") Dassin himself, a man with the curious, worldly-otherworldly face of a middle-aged...
...orchestra sounded fine in this place. The strings had considerable richness of tone and the wind section demonstrated considerable agility in tackling Debussy's tricky rhythmic figurations. The only section that suffered a bit from the non-mystical reading was the first Nuages. Here, clouds must somehow be evoked; the orchestral texture must be thick enough to mask entrances and cutoffs. If not, as happened last night, things tend to seem bleak and bit arbitrary...
...bit disappoint to see the Bach Society let down its patron saint after serving his successor so handsomely. An ensemble of ten strings, supported by Michel Singher '62 on the harpsichord, was foiled by the virtuosic demands of the Great Man's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Intonation was faulty throughout, if not in the 'celli, than in the violins; the resultant thick texture took the edge off of Mr. Lazar's intimate and a bit over-respectful interpretation...
...Orchestra, one realized that everything was completely under control again. Professor Piston's work of 1956 was originally commissioned by the Louisville Symphony and received a fittingly excellent performance at its East Coast premiere last night. After being delighted by its boyish allegro--which has more than a bit of Copland to it--and its sensuous slow movement, I cannot quite understand the reticence of other orchestras to take up the short, light work. Everything that was first rate about the Bach Society's handling of the other pieces on the program was evident here in even greater abundance. Their...