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Slides as Backdrop...
...Visual Arts Center has completed a series of color slides to be projected onto the stage as part of the backdrop of "Il Combattimento...
...fainted dead away. Contralto roles are like that, full of weeping and despair, the tragic counterweights that support the romantic leads. Forrester, making her U.S. operatic debut, flawlessly performed the role of Cornelia, effortlessly pouring out great billows of plum-shaded singing that served as a lush backdrop for the vocal scrollwork of the other principal singers. Where they thrilled, she caressed. Predictably, the heaviest applause went to Soprano Beverly Sills as Cleopatra and Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle as Caesar...
...ever had. At the spectacular harbor site of Expo 67, on mainly manmade islands in the St. Lawrence River, the pavilions of 70 nations, which are now abuilding, will welcome visitors. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have already accepted invitations. The Parliament buildings in Ottawa will provide a backdrop for a May-to-October son et lumiere spectacle, and Sir Tyrone Guthrie, the Shakespearean showman who launched Canada's Stratford, will produce a centennial spectacle on Parliament Hill...
With this exchange, the bill was clearly doomed. Against a backdrop of Negro-incited violence in the cities, the public showed little enthusiasm for new ventures into civil rights-and outright antipathy to the bill's open-housing section. What is disturbing the nation, in Dirksen's phrase, is "conduct, not color." Indeed, the Administration itself had lobbied only halfheartedly for the measure. As a result, its Senate supporters failed last week by ten votes to get the two-thirds majority needed to stop a filibuster against it by imposing cloture. In a last, hopeless attempt to resuscitate...