Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...score. Based on a Stalin prize-winning novel, Prokofiev's Story tells of a World War II pilot who lost both legs in a crash and lived to fly again, after a harrowing, 17-day crawl behind enemy lines (enacting this scene, the opera's hero sings flat on his belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems to have been embarrassing and painful to Prokofiev. As he had promised, he did weave a number of tuneful folk motifs into his usual sophisticated, modernist composition, even included a vintage Red army...
FELIX FRANKFURTER REMINISCES. More than 50 hours of recorded talk in answer to questions from a Columbia University historian show the many sides of the waspish, brainy lawyer and teacher whom F.D.R. elevated to the Supreme Court. Sometimes flat, more often incisive. Frankfurter's chatter is sure to supply many a footnote to the history...
...words fail to paper over the growing evidence of deep ideological disagreement. In place of the flat 1957 assertion that the Russian Communist Party plays the "leading role in the Socialist movement," the new document merely observes that historically the Russian party is "universally recognized as the.vanguard of the world Communist movement." As if to underline Red China's view that Moscow has a primacy only in time, the Peking party daily Jen Min Jih Pao editorialized that henceforth all Communist parties are "completely equal and independent." Instead of talking of the "monolithic unity of the Socialist camp...
There are things in All the Way Home that seem quite wrong. Jay's brother looms too large, performs too loud; the play is far too long in ending and then ends badly. Other things in the play seem insufficient and even flat: scenes lack outward drama without displaying any of Agee's inner force. But, with good performances by Colleen Dewhurst, Arthur Hill, Aline MacMahon and John Megna (as the small son), the people, most of them, smell of life and their behavior smacks of truth. Miles apart as in many ways they are, Agee, like Chekhov...
That line may have been overemotional, but the rest of the show invited emotion. The scattered, somewhat uncertain opening scenes were followed by startling juxtaposed flashes of irony. A flat-bed truck jammed with migrant families who were allowed to rest only every ten hours was compared to a cattle train, which by federal law has to stop for five of every 28 hours. A rat-infested hovel housing six was contrasted with a nearby $500,000 stable for race horses. And Murrow noted that while the Federal Government spends $6,500,000 annually to protect migratory wild life. Congress...