Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...producing the same opera several nights in succession (to save money on moving scenery): "Many roles are sung by artists who have won public acclaim in a particular part . . . The roles are so exacting that one artist cannot sing two nights in succession . . ." Anyway, "how about the many [out-of-town] music lovers who . . . want variety in opera just as they want variety in Broadway plays? What would they think, when here for a week of opera, if we produced the same work several nights in succession...
...Choice was greeted with wide acclaim by Coach Art Valpey and Houston's teammates. "The squad showed remarkably fine judgment," stated Valpey "and I am fortunate to have two such fine leaders during my first two years at Harvard...
...soon as he found his own painting style, he found a market and critical acclaim, for Dufy's art is nothing if not charming. Today he lives in a comfortably bourgeois house surrounded by maple trees in Perpignan. "Every night," he told a recent visitor, "I go to bed tired but contented. I do as much as my strength permits; I think I'm entitled to sleep in peace...
...Public Acclaim...
...film has earned great acclaim in Europe. Those who prefer their movies with a nervous tempo and honeyed brightness will find it very slow and very dark. But Dreyer has used timing and lighting so artfully that his characters seldom have to speak and never waste a word; he has gone farther than most moviemakers towards solving the difficult problems of silent cinema in a talk-ridden era. Some of his close-ups are extraordinarily long, but they are brimming with substance: the subtle, beautifully acted modulations of deep moral anguish...