Word: cloaked
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...black, redlined cloak, black stockings and stiletto heels, Graziella Sciutti is now a familiar figure in Milan and an accepted operatic star all over Europe, but her career developed slowly. As a youngster in Turin, she studied singing, was later told that her voice was too frail for opera, and decided to become a concert singer. After her concert debut in 1950, she won a few operatic parts (Lucy in The Telephone, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro), did not really get launched until Herbert von Karajan cast her in the role of Frasquita in a 1955 production of Carmen...
...part of this process. A roster of the plays presented before the advent of the Loeb and solely on student initiative shows a variety and quality that leave no cause for now depriving interested students of the right of choice; for the committee to usurp this right under a cloak of doing otherwise is both unwise and dishonest...
...been talking too much about myself," says the baritone to the accompanist. "Let's talk about you. Have you heard any of my new records?" That well-seasoned musical fable has grated on the ears of accompanists for years. Fretting under a cloak of near anonymity, they have traditionally been regarded by the public as the perpetual subordinates of the musical world. Singers and other soloists of course know better, and so last week did the audiences flocking to hear Soprano Victoria de Los Angeles launch a German recital tour. At the piano behind...
...fortnight after the U.S. agreement was signed, Guinea's President Touré rose in the U.N. Assembly to criticize Khrushchev's bullying, shoe-thumping tactics. Added up, it all revived the hopes of many that the Red tint in Sékou Touré's cloak of "neutralism" was not necessarily permanent...
...Blow. Nikita Khrushchev paid last week for not realizing this. He thought he could play on the Africans' hatred for colonialism as a cloak to take over the Congo and set himself up as the champion of all Africa. When crossed, he turned on the U.N. and Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who had thwarted him. As the Baltika neared Manhattan, Khrushchev discovered his error...