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...youngest, prettiest leading singer) and a warm, full-timbered voice. Her latest success: Erika in Samuel Barber's Vanessa (TIME, Jan. 27). Although a good singer, she is not yet a great one, and her voice must gain weight and authority before she can conquer such big mezzo roles as Amneris (Aïda) or the Princess Eboli (Don Carlo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Voices at the Met | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...twenty-two. You are then more competent to judge the honesty and falsity of man. Nature has thrown a wall of maidenly modesty around you. Preserve that and not let your affection be trifled with while too young by any youthful flirt who is in search of hearts to conquer...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Couthness | 1/15/1958 | See Source »

...fancily tragic, The Rope Dancers is nowhere facilely sentimental; it nowhere stoops to conquer. And beyond a certain feeling for character, 43-year-old Playwright Wishengrad in his first play has his own determined way of looking at things. Once he sees only what is there, it should prove rewarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...necessary to institute a push of the dimensions of the Manhattan Project, but some sort of combined administration for the missile-rocket development is needed. We may not look seriously on petty inter-service squabbles, but when they affect our attempts to conquer space, they must be controlled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthbound | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

...Worlds to Conquer. Fresh from a financial knockout of Promoter James D. Norris, the promise of $255,000 of television money and 45% of the gate safely in his pocket, Ray was as cocky as ever. A blue, short-billed cap perched on his handsome head, a two-tone windbreaker zipped up against the mist from the lake, he smiled benevolently at his subjects. "After 17 years of boxing, all fights are the same," said Sugar with unlimited self-assurance. "The burden of proof is on Basilio. I've got the title, and he's got to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Roar of the Crowd | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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