Word: antonia
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...Antonia Brico made her conducting debut with the Berlin Philharmonic. She was 28 years old, and the first woman ever to secure that honor--the stuff of which dreams are made. The 40 years that followed have been, for Brico, mostly a story of dreams deferred. Aside from a handful of guest-conducting engagements at the Metropolitan Opera, Lewisohn Stadium and the New York Philharmonic, she has been unable to crack one of the few remaining exclusively male fields...
...Twenty-odd years ago, one Judy Collins, age 10, landed in Brico's lap for piano lessons. Today, Collins is in a position to return part of the gift of this most gifted woman. She and Jill Godmilow have produced a documentary on Brico's life and work, entitled Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman: The film has just begun an indefinite run at the Orson Welles. It is a remarkable portrait of an equally remarkable woman...
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...pretty brain." There is no doubt she proves it. Her Cromwell is vast and conscientious. She has read every biography, pored through every broadside of the times, considered every malicious rumor, and records them all before rendering her own considered opinion. The result is sometimes tedious, but Lady Antonia is obviously intent on leaving no flank exposed to attack by scholarly predators...
...Lady Antonia scants no detail of politics or social trends. The result is a dense scrim of facts that partly obscures the giant size and shape of Cromwell's tortured personality. Every once in a while, his voice rings out memorably-in an outburst at Parliament ("Begone, you rogues, you have sat long enough"), or pleading with a superior not to order tired horses into battle ("They will fall down under their riders if you thus command them; you may have their skins, but you can have no service"). Or, raging at a petition from the Irish Catholic clergy...