Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mapleson recordings are not for the casual listener or the audiophile ("This is not a high fidelity record," says the album jacket testily). Most of the performances are so badly flawed with a variety of grindings, thumpings and banshee wails that the singers and orchestra are barely audible. Solos break off at tantalizing spots. But for all that, the records offer invaluable testimony to the student of singing on the style, range and phrasing of such otherwise unrecorded golden-agers as Jean De Reszke, Albert Saléza and Georg Anthes, and such better-preserved stars as Lillian Nordica, Emma...
...These are no casual, tomorrow-we-die marriages of convenience, or even-broadly speaking-marriages brought off at the point of a shotgun. They are authorized and supervised under stern rules that many a Stateside parent could wish for, with the U.S. Air Force playing the role of a straitlaced, old-fashioned Dutch uncle. According to regulations, the airman must have his commanding officer's permission to marry, and the British girl must prove 1) that she is legally free to marry, and 2) that she can meet the requirements of U.S. immigration, e.g., that she has no police...
...manners have changed to some extent, the geisha's true function has not. In essence, it is to be all that a wife should be if she didn't have to wash the dishes, bear the babies, clean the house and grow old and tiresome. To casual guests at a party or to the patron she hopes will one day claim her permanently, the geisha must be tireless and fascinating, solicitous and flattering, soothing and delightful, ready to make conversation, play a game or listen to pompous discourse at the whim of her customer. "A good geisha," said...
...total effect. The final music on the program, an Epiphany Carol by Addiss and the Choral Cantata No. 150 of Bach, required the support of a small instrumental ensemble, which accounted for much of the vigor of the performances. The Bach Society Chorus is a gathering of casual singers, who in their enthusiasm are vicariously, if not always musically, entertaining...
Bill Knowland is a tireless public speaker, but strains painfully in his attempts at casual conversation, even with his family (the Knowlands have two daughters, one son). But Helen says: "But we know he loves us ... It's Billy's way, and it's all right with me." Bill once reprimanded her for jaywalking on the grounds that the wife of a lawmaker should avoid even the slightest infraction of law. But Helen merely says, half facetiously: "His high principles can be almost a nuisance at times." She encourages him in his only real hobby: pasting items...