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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous soprano around, but standing a flat 5 feet, she is surely the smallest. Performance by performance, review by review, she has been inching to stardom. As Cherubino in the Metropolitan Opera's Marriage of Figaro last December and as Liu in Turandot, she won the kind of acclaim that prima donnas are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Small Body, Big Voice | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...sing. But as exciting theater, the bloodthirsty Agamemnon legend is hard to beat, and Wallmann did not try: instead she moved her chorus in a plastic combination of Greek tragedy and modern ballet, guided Star Soprano Clara Petrella in a performance of icy majesty, and won unanimous critical acclaim for what Milan's Corriere d'Informazione called "a stupendous visual WESTRICH spectacle, austere, but graced with Wallmann's customary taste and knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: The Lady General | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...debut in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda four years ago, the critics were rapturous in their praise-for Joan Sutherland, the celebrated coloratura who also happened to be making her New York debut that night in the title role. Poor Marilyn was completely submerged in the flood of acclaim for Sutherland. The reviewer for the New York Times neglected to mention that she was even present, much less accounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Out of the Shade | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...Loeb was not the same scientist; though he reached his greatest acclaim then as a scientific commentator on the issues of ethics and welfare important to everyman, he himself turned to his laboratory because it allowed him to forget the world outside...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Jacques Loeb: Bridging Biology and Metaphysics | 2/11/1965 | See Source »

...mediocre. Churchill was an aristocrat, a brilliant dilettante, a creator in a dozen roles and garbs. He was a specialist in nothing-except courage, imagination, intelligence. He was never afraid to lead, and he knew that a leader must sometimes risk failure and disapproval rather than seek universal acclaim. He had been, as Denis Brogan put it, "everything but the Archbishop of Canterbury"-and he often seemed more confident than any archbishop that he had the ear of God and was watched over with solicitude by angels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Requiem for Greatness | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

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