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Good Listeners. "If a joke lays a complete egg," says George Burns, "we might put in two or three people to carry it along." The laugh canner's purest technique (Ozzie & Harriet) is to skip the fallible human element altogether and, as the trade has it, "lay the laugh...
New Light. Like other first-rate intellects, Von Neumann had an uncanny gift for explanation, and the wonder of clear communication in his abstruse field happened whether he was talking to a packed lecture hall or to a single listener. He would grin, draw a few symbols on the blackboard...
Not Hi-Fi. The Mapleson recordings are not for the casual listener or the audiophile ("This is not a high fidelity record," says the album jacket testily). Most of the performances are so badly flawed with a variety of grindings, thumpings and banshee wails that the singers and orchestra are...
Cyrus Durgin (Globe) said, "I can't say exactly what the play is about. But I can say it is not about life with aspirations and hopes, with love and fullness and meaning . . . it is blasphemy against the human spirit. . . . Furthermore, the language simply does not communicate to the listener...
String quartet players probably have more fun than any other musicians, for each of them-two fiddlers, a violist and a cellist-is in sole charge of a part that would be played by a whole section in an orchestra. But string-quartet music, limited to small halls, has a...