Word: berit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Libby Pierpont, breaking her three-set-match habit, crushed Kate Gray in the number-two slot, 6-0, 6-2. Leslie Miller at five walloped Marcia Patterson, 2-and-0, and Wen, moving into the sixth position, double-bageled Berit Berquist...
...open house on the Sabbath at his residence. No previous Premier ever did this. "It's not my home; it's yours," Begin earnestly told several hundred visitors who showed up for the first session. Begin as a good politician is constantly visible attending bar mitzvahs and berit (circumcision rites), or praying at the Wailing Wall. Unlike Rabin, a secular-minded sabra, Begin is a deeply religious man who seems quite comfortable with yarmulke, shawl and prayer book. The Premier even paid a preflight call on his old antagonist Golda Meir at her home near Tel Aviv...
...when Nilsson, playing a mortal, sings at top volume, what does the superhuman Brunnhilde do? Last week the unlucky lady was Berit Lindholm, a well-known Brunnhilde in Europe making her Met debut. She turned out to be a slim, handsome woman with a thrilling mezzo register, but this did not help her with much of Brunnhilde's important music. Vickers sang Siegmund with wrenching intensity, which worked fine with Nilsson. But in the searing confrontation with Brunnhilde he was dramatically undermatched...
None of the singers have flawless French diction, but otherwise the Philips cast seems nearly perfect. Tenor Jon Vickers' heroic-sounding Aeneas has both muscle and gentleness; Mezzo-Soprano Josephine Veasey sings Dido with a burnished-bronze quality that can range from love to outrage. As Cassandra, Soprano Berit Lindholm is splendidly equipped to trumpet the doom of Troy, even if her voice is a bit too high for this low-ranging role...