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...audience that he disapproved of Gould's interpretation of Brahms's D Minor but would defend to the death an artist's right to experiment, Lenny democratically beckoned the intense Canadian to the stage. Gould-who considers his pinkies too precious for any more effusive greeting-gratefully touched Bernstein's fingertips and launched into his very special, barely audible and snail-like reading of the work. Snorted one New York critic: "All the whole thing proved is that Gould is not a good Brahms player, and that we might have discovered for ourselves...
These losses should serve as propaedeutic. To let such precious landmarks slip away unheeded would seem a sad mistake; Boston, proud of her past, might look again before she shoves what remains of it into seeling night...
Bows at the back of the head and sailor hats would be precious if she were eight. But when she reached ten, it would seem that good taste, intelligence and a dawning restraint would have caused her to "cool...
...economic success of the Common Market that most of Europe's out nations are queuing up to get in.* Last week three neutrals-Austria, Switzerland and Sweden-met in the Swedish ski resort of Rattvik to discuss ways of becoming associated with the market without sacrificing their precious neutrality. The combined trade of the three with the market nations last year totaled $6,279,000,000, and all three fear that the market's common tariff barriers against the rest of the world will eventually freeze them out. At the same time, they fear the market...
...first story in Assembly, a 63-pager called "Mrs. Stratton of Oak Knoll," typifies this shortcoming, and it is enough to makes less patient readers heave the volume through a window. For 63 pages, nobody says anything or does anything of the slightest interest to anybody, and all these precious people stumble in and out of each other's houses to no purpose. Finally, without ever getting off the ground, "Mrs. Stratton of Oak Knoll" ends. That's one thing in its favor...