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...Boris. Every basso is his own Boris, and the six who sing it best differ widely in their interpretation of the role. The Metropolitan Opera's Jerome Hines conducted a hit-and-run seminar in psychology some years ago and concluded that Boris was a hysteric and a manic-depressive. Boris' death, Hines has decided, is from cerebral hemorrhage, and he induces it onstage by temple-pounding. Bulgarian Basso Boris Christoff sees the tortured Czar as a man who "dies of his own sin, his own dishonesty-not heart trouble or mental illness." At the Met this season...
...Were Boris. Just as Hines was preening over that, the Paris press was proclaiming a Soviet basso, Ivan Petrov, as the world's greatest Boris. Petrov came to town with 40 Ibs. of jeweled costumes and the rank of "Artist of the Soviet People." His Boris is ideologically and politically rehabilitated: "He is touched by the misery of the Russian people he tried to help," Petrov says. In Paris, Petrov brought a bouquet of flowers to Chaliapin's grave in the Batignolles Cemetery, then disclaimed the master's influence with a fashionable Russian proverb: "Better...
...mesmerist." He had been, he told the world, the champion of everything, from shooting to pole vaulting; he was one of the world's great lovers, though "a genius gets tired of a girl in two months." As for other painters, he had no use for "this Picasso-basso fellow," or for "Bellini-meaney," or for Michelangelo ("nyeh, nyeh, nyeh...
Between sessions of Congress, Mills goes home to Arkansas, making speeches, meeting with an endless flow of constituents in his office in Searcy, traveling back-country roads to chat with voters in his basso drawl. Mills has a safe seat, has not had any opposition for the Democratic nomination in his district since 1944?but he behaves as if a formidable challenger were eternally at his heels...
Wine for the Basso. Khrushchev him self stayed outwardly calm. In the midst of the crisis, he took 3½ hours to chat with a visiting American, Westinghouse Electric Vice President William E. Knox, who was in Moscow for a conference on industrial research. Spotting a picture of bearded Karl Marx on the wall, Knox moved Khrushchev to guffaws by remarking: "I didn't know that Marx was a Cuban." When Rumania's Communist leaders came through town, Khrushchev took them to a 3¾-hour performance of Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theater, where he loudly applauded...