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...never did see. He said that if Eisenhower even came close to doing such a thing, he'd not only bust him out of the Army, he'd see to it that never for the rest of his life would he be able to draw a peaceful breath...
...WATCH the two girls talking, looking for any stiffness in two newly-acquired friends. There is none. No change in posture, no half turning-away. Not even the subtle, residual tummy tuck, sucking in the breath and the abdomen together as we walk into a group of strange people...
Eugene O'Neill seemed to write as if God (or the Devil) had given him life for just one reason: to shout with every breath that all was a ghastly mistake. "Froth! Rotten!" were his actor father's dying lines, and the playwright son with the eyes of a fallen angel carried on the refrain. "The Great Sickness" was among O'Neill's milder epithets for human existence...
...breath control was excellent, and his technique polished--unfortunately the orchestra did not always match his standard, though the blend between them was good. The cadenza, exciting and wellplayed, was marred by a lack of communication between the soloist and the orchestra, which came in either too late or too soon, creating about five seconds of confusion before soloist-conductor-orchestra communication was reestablished...
...empty at first, then slowly filling with fighters doing exercises-is as carefully controlled and lovely as a fugue. It is characteristic of Eastman that the sounds of the gym-a jump rope skipping against the floor, a bag being punched hard in irregular rhythm, the bursts of quick breath from the athletes- mingle with a Gregorian chant issuing, presumably, from upstairs. The place is called, after all. the New Avenue Walk-up Gym and Cultural Center. It could be a sort of royal court for the kind of kingdom Eastman creates, whimsical but not cute, tinctured with a sort...