Word: minor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Manhattan's Little Orchestra Society as a last-minute substitute soloist and dashed off Ravel's tortuous Concerto in G Major as if he owned it. Last week, impassive as ever, Lorin appeared on the Telephone Hour (NBCTV) playing Chopin's Waltz in C-Sharp Minor and an excerpt from Saint-Saën's Fifth Piano Concerto for a whole new army of fans...
They did not have far to search, for television is shot through with major and minor forms of corruption. There are the phony commercials: the foam in the beer glass, which is often really soap suds; the home permanent on the pretty model, often the result of a two-hour session with a hairdresser. Last week, the FTC issued a complaint against Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co. and General Motors, charging "camera trickery" on commercials, e.g., pictures were taken through open windows that were supposedly taken through clear plate glass. There is the blatant, organized sale of plugs...
Shabandar said the program will arrange minor executive or managerial jobs, transportation, and living facilities for approximately 20 students next summer...
...pivotal figure in the play is, of course, Mrs. Alving, but as Anne Miner portrays her she is constrained almost to the point of inarticulateness. In the minor roles, Lisa Commager (the Alving's maid) is beautiful and occasionally quite good, while Laurence Jacobs often misinterprets the character of Jacob Engstrand, a Falstaffian carpenter...
Still, if the casting of the two main roles was far from perfect and the performance in the pit highly unsatisfactory, the general effect did not lack tension and emotional impact. Credit this to the generally competent singing in both major and minor roles (in fact, the shepherdess, Taeko Fujii, was perhaps the most impressive vocalist of all), a well-prepared chorus, and Miss Caldwell's inventive and skillful staging of the main scenes...