Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Gaulle showed the irritable petulance of a man who was not getting his way. Attacking the integration of NATO military forces, the root principle on which the alliance has based its military strategy, De Gaulle dismissed it as "a system in which, in fact, everything is under the command of the Americans and in which the Americans decide on the use of the principal weapons -in other words, the atomic weapons. But in ten years there have been many changes. France has regained its balance and its thrust and . . . has commenced setting up its atomic arm." He insisted that...
...kinds of sounds are being recast in the stereo mold, but the stereo fan has learned that he can best demonstrate the pingpong effects with the plink and thump of percussion instruments, and stereo records with "percussion" in the title have a Presley-like pull. Command Records, a stereo pioneer, seldom settles for less than two Ps in titles, such as Persuasive Percussion and Provocative Percussion which between them have sold hundreds of thousands of copies since last September. Companies both big and small are doubling in brass. Among the new releases...
...Private Life of a Private Eye (Enoch Light and the Light Brigade; Command). Bandleader Light, Command's artist-and-repertory chief, and Fellow-Composer Lewis A. Davies have written a ballet for the ear, suggesting that stereo may give rise to original compositions to exploit its spatial effects. The score runs the gamut of styles, incorporating some fine workable musical ideas, as well as some that are merely reminiscent of background music for crime melodramas...
Pertinent Percussion Cha Cha's (Command). This time, Bandleader Light provides a strong, not to say overpowering beat for the stereo fan who likes to exercise while listening...
...Captain's Table (Rank; 20th Century-Fox) is a so-so stateroom farce in which an honest clod of a freighter captain (John Gregson) is put in command of a passenger liner, only to find that it is a vessel of iniquity, whose officers are mainly concerned with smuggling cigarettes and snuggling with lady voyagers. Before long the captain has taken a pratfall into a tray of lobster newburg, walked shudderingly across a boat deck alive with cries of water-borne passion, indulged in a spirited pie-throwing match with a roomful of children, and repulsed the sort...