Word: sobering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devoted to his next to last symphony, which commemorated the end of World War II. Written when Prokofiev was a semi-invalid, the sixth is largely elegiac, for "wounds that can't be healed." Erich Leinsdorf distinguishes subtly between each muted mood, first sorrowing, then celebrating with sober splendor, and kicking off the traces for a jaunty, jazzy finale...
...python's proprietress, but family fealty prevails over private pleasure. With the town's aging sheriff, he rounds up a dozen rustic volunteers and marches off to the chase. Along the way, he gets disastrously drunk on a double swig of corn liquor, staggers off to get sober, and winds up delightedly in bed with the impotent old sheriff's mildly demented young wife...
Veteran Soviet Character Actor Evgeny Samoilov, 53, certainly seemed out of character that night in Moscow's Mayakovsky Theater. A few days later, readers of the Evening Moscow knew why. "Dear Comrade Editor," Samoilov wrote remorsefully. "I was not sober for the evening performance. My delinquency defames the title of Soviet actor." In the future, moaned Samoilov, who holds three Stalin Prizes, "I will wash out this stain with my work...
Last week the Boschaps performed a rich, tastefully executed program at Manhattan's Town Hall. In Benjamin Britten's Fantasy for Oboe and Strings, the trio of strings spun delicately interlocking webs around the oboe's sober solo; Francis Poulenc's sprightly Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone was charmingly carried off like the playful banterings of back-fence gossips. The evening's major piece, Schubert's String Quintet in C, grew out of the stage like a tree of sound, alive and shapely in every line. The musicians played as it is seldom...
...character of a book which may be several hundred pages long. Specialized books of non-fiction don't need eye-catching jackets, for scientific and scholarly works are usually purchased for their academic reputations. The jackets of such books must convey simply the competence of their contents through sober design. But the typical reader of fiction is looking for entertainment, so fiction jackets must promise reading pleasure to undecided browsers...