Word: cheerfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage, supported by Baritone Giangiacomo Guelfi. Slowly advancing to the footlights, she knelt, gazed beseechingly at her public and bent forward until her forehead touched the stage. "Forgive me," said she in a squeaky voice. "I've been feeling poorly all day." The audience gave a cheer, and the opera went on, with Stella prudently transposing her highest notes down one octave. "Poor girl," said one fan. "I wouldn't want that to happen even to Callas...
Stuart Vaughan's directing usually shows a sure hand, but, to switch extremities, he makes one false step. Part One ends with an overly theatrical addition: soldiers kneel in a hollow halfcircle, facing inward with banners flying, and cheer several times: "For England and Saint George!.!" This might come off after Henry V, but Henry IV: I does not end on a note that can sustain a gesture such as Vaughan has added to the script. Except for this mistake, Vaughan's staging always enhances Shakespeare and shows his willingness to trust the plays, a welcome change from the fooling...
...sword from beside him, and flourished it above his head before the police could move in and pommel him away. Later, as the King entered the new parliamentary chamber, where Ghanaians in togas mingled with bemedaled Western ambassadors, the Belgians shouted, "Vive le Roi!" The Congolese Assemblymen, preferring to cheer the new nation's first President, replied with, "Vive Kasavubu...
Businessmen are even beginning to find some cheer in their disappointments. The Massachusetts Investors Trust, one of the nation's largest mutual funds, regards the fact that the first half did not develop into a boom as a positive factor. Says a top M.I.T. executive: "New record peaks will be reached this year, but there is no boom in the offing. It is a fact which disturbs us not at all, since a boom is always followed by a decline...
Birdie-Birdie. A burly muscle-boy, Souchak not only was driving the ball out of sight, as expected, but his erratic putter was so steady that his two-round total of 135 was the lowest in Open history. Full of his customary good cheer, Souchak seemed about to disprove the old golfing axiom that relaxed guys finish last. But in the third round, Souchak began to suffer. Startled by the sudden sound of a spectator's camera, he drove out-of-bounds on the 18th, and smiled no more. Still, going into the final round, he had what seemed...