Word: pleasantness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Players. An affable middle-aged man with very long sideburns, he could pass for the principal of an affluent and progressive suburban high school. It is easy to understand why the BSO's press officers like to have him act as a spokesman for the orchestra: he has a pleasant, reassuring manner and a way of keeping in control of interviews. Sitting in a comfortable armchair in a Symphony Hall anteroom, he seems to actually enjoy being asked the same old questions once more. (As we talk, two Symphony Hall employees pass through. "Oh Joey," says the first...
...Excellent, Mr. Pattakos. Thank you very much. I hope you have enjoyed your evening here, and that you will have a pleasant evening from...
Immense Pride. Garland, now 46, was a Tennessee mountain boy who earned a college degree in education but considered himself inadequate to teach. So he came to Detroit to work in an auto factory, then found his career as a railroad-yard switching engineer. He owned a pleasant house, attended a local Baptist church regularly, joined the Detroit police emergency reserve. Of his four children, Sandy was his favorite, a source of immense pride...
...mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile white building jutting vertically on the horizon seen through a window. And when Danny chops wood, the sun produces flare effects on the axe's downward lunge, a pleasant bit of work-glorifying imagery. For the great part of the film's duration, however, the audience is merely lulled into acceptance by the screen's warm colors and the Brahms music on the soundtrack...
...crucial season for the orchestra. If its subscribers and ticket sales continue to increase, as they have for the past few years, it may be over the hump. If they do not, if Philharmonia audiences decrease as Symphony audiences have, the Philharmonia may be just a pleasant memory of music, dying with a dying fall...