Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great aria from the Nile Scene. Toscanini demanded that she sing a long, difficult phrase in one breath. "I know," he had said earlier, "there is not a soprano today who does it. But you do it." He also insisted on his own interpretation of anguish in the phrase O patria mia, o patria mia. He sang it through himself, beating his chest. Nelli tried it. No, no, said the maestro, and launched into the phrase again, leaning toward her, hugging his own shoulders, swaying in sorrow. When finally the recording began, Nelli's voice rang through the hall...
...object turned out to be a sculptured slab, 6 ft. 5½ in. by 2 ft. 3 in., showing the dead Christ laid out on a rough, shrouded bier awaiting entombment. In the tragic dignity of the recumbent figure and in the calm anguish of the face, the sculptor had achieved a work of striking realism; the body lies alone with none to mourn it, and the effect is one of infinite loneliness. Art experts called the statue a first-rate example of Renaissance sculpture, and archaeologists pronounced it "one of the major archaeological finds made in London during this...
...standards he is a rich dead beat who has never done a lick of work in his 36 years. Born in America and educated in England, Stephen goes to Berlin in the '20s as "a runaway puritan." There he samples "every kind of pleasure, vice, shame and mental anguish," and returns to England a jaded 22, convinced that the only valid emotion is boredom, "or ennui as I preferred to call it." Into the midst of ennui steps an older woman named Elizabeth Rydal, a sensitive novelist of the Virginia Woolf persuasion, with grey eyes and a "long amused...
Arthur J. Langguth '55, president of the CRIMSON, promised that this year events would be more dignified. "We deeply regret the anguish we have caused our fellow publication," Langguth said. "We surely do not wish to add to the Lampoon's burdens...
...trade-union work, Narayan observed with sorrow how the Communists bored from within, how they ditched the Socialists when the party line changed. Young zealots reproached him for turning toward religion, away from Marxism. Narayan answered: "I was once a Communist. I have watched the Soviet experiment with anguish. If you want to establish a totalitarian state in the name of Socialism, you might do so. But I will not be a party...