Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...convinced that people will laugh at almost anything Mort Sahl says. He comes out on stage in non-descript pants and a yellow cardigan sweater, and there he is:... MORT' SAHL, devastating critic of our times, about whom everyone has read so much, in Time magazine. He stands for a minute, scratches his head, gestures erratically once or twice, and then he's off, saying funny things about politics and the situation of the world. He has a marvelous stage presence, an easy stance, an endearing nervousness and an odd tone of voice, which makes otherwise pallid remarks assume...
Mort Sahl is considered a critic--and yet people were laughing, I think, not so much because they heard what they didn't expect and what made them uncomfortable--but rather because they heard precisely what they knew they were going to hear, precisely what they wanted to hear, and precisely what they have eagerly believed to be true for some time...
...after all, what can one expect? Here is Mort Sahl, critic, in Symphony Hall, one of the most exalted products of years of pleasant and successful conformity. He has left the dingy purlieus of the hungry i, and has had to pay the price. He has had his grimacing image on the cover of Time; he has performed...
...railroad-station architecture. Included, in addition to Machaut and Hindemith's own work, were five intricate and austere pieces of church music by Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612) arranged for choir, some with instrumental accompaniment. Hindemith, a first-rate conductor, gave them all performances that Die Welt's critic found "almost overpoweringly impressive." Hindemith's own work, musical settings to four long passages from the books of Matthew and Luke in Latin, evoked several strikingly different moods: the first and fourth motets were highly dramatic and rhythmically complicated; the second had the lyric simplicity of folk song, while...
...week, the show ran for nearly four hours. On-opening night, the white-tied, tiara-heavy audience saw the first-act curtain go down just before 11. the final curtain at 12:25. Reviewers on Toronto's three daily newspapers commented with cautious approval, making the traditional road-critic observation that the musical-drawn from...