Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tiresias (Opera-Comique Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Andre Clutyene; Angel). A subject that is a bit ribald for U.S. public performance, deftly given the full French treatment...
Puccini: Tosco (La Scala Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Victor de Sabata; Angel, 2 LPs). The familiar, gaudy music bursts into flame when Soprano Maria Callas digs into...
...mostly levelheaded and carry a ring of conviction. Wrote Sir Walter Scott: "I found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous, and even kind . . . He was devoid of selfishness . . . generous, humane and noble-minded when passion did not blind him." Wrote Stendhal: "The profile of an angel, the gentlest of manners . . . the most amiable monster that I have ever seen . . . There was much petty vanity, a continual and puerile fear of appearing ridiculous . . . But his genius once awakened, his faults were shaken off as a garment that would have incommoded the flight of his imagination...
...Author Mankiewicz, 32, nephew of movie Writer-Director-Producer Joe (The Barefoot Contessa) Mankiewicz, chooses as his hero-victim an 18-year-old boy of Mexican descent who lives in a Southern California town that draws its color line tight as a noose. Straying from "Mex Town," Angel Chavez makes his first fumbling pass at a local girl on a restricted stretch of San Juno's beach one night, and she drops dead of a rheumatic heart. A brassy, card-carrying lawyer named Barney Castle helps save the boy from a lynch mob and takes...
...devils have fared much better at the hands of the artists than have their heavenly counterparts, the angels. It is seldom that you see a picture of a sickly-looking devil. Never is he feminine . . . Placing the artists' conception of a devil alongside their conception of an angel makes one wonder whether it is at all possible for good to overcome evil...