Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ming ceramics, both plain white and bright-colored, were more distinctive products of the age. Of the two shown here, the underworld god at left has a clenched intensity seldom equaled in Western sculpture; the Oriental Apollo at right, riding a rooster into the dawn light, is no less intense in his calmness. Both ceramics share the one quality that Chinese artists have always considered of first importance: a linear fluency like that of clouds driven before a gale...
...simple story of Alcestis offers nothing too difficult in the way of dramatic movement-indeed, there is little action for anyone, a chief reason the opera is not performed more often. Dying King Admetus is condemned by Apollo to the Styx unless someone can be found to die in his place. None of the citizenry volunteers, so wife Alcestis sacrifices herself. Admetus follows her to the underworld, and Apollo is so impressed by their devotion that he reprieves them both...
Supporting singing roles have been assigned to Stephen C. Schatzki '52, Douglas M. Saxe '53 and C. Eliot Miltenberger '53, who will portray Cadmus Sommus and Apollo. A chorus of 30 College and Radcliffe students is being rehearsed nightly by Hewitt Pantaleont...
...never scorned such lines as: "Fear not, fair maid; by heavens, you are safe at last with Buffalo Bill, who is ever ready to risk, life and die if need be in the defense of weak and helpless womanhood." Then he stood blushing on the stage, "handsome as Apollo," while hundreds of fascinated men and boys rocked the house with wild applause...
...water; his favorite food, a scraped carrot. While in politics he is left of the left, in matters of right and wrong he is inclined to be right . . . He is gifted with a winning voice which can make the warnings of Cassandra sound like the love note of Apollo...