Word: convey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season. The production is tailored to make the most of Farrell's opulent voice and to minimize the defects of acting and appearance that have limited her career almost entirely to the concert hall. Stage business was reduced to a minimum. But if Soprano Farrell failed visually to convey the briny sense of evil that Callas brings to the role, she demonstrated again that hers is perhaps the finest dramatic-soprano voice in the land. Perfectly responsive to the opera's somber emotional inflections, her voice could sink effortlessly to a haunted, house-filling pianissimo or soar...
...sketch this scene to convey something of the spirit of the Rue de Salaud--approximately sixteen blocks of cold-water flats, back stairs, and cracked plaster stretching from the Radcliffe Graduate Center to Central Square. This is the Left Bank of the Charles, the garret-estate of the unwashed literati, the tenements of the night-crawler--that interim period creature who walks the Cambridge streets between Commencement and Summer School...
...homeland, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Gulf," shrilled Shukairy. "There must be a rushing consent to Arab aspirations before they are achieved without consent. This psychoneurotic complex of hating President Nasser should be extracted from Western thinking." The ferocity of his language might have been intended to convey verbal loyalty to Nasser and Arab nationalism while concealing Saudi Arabia's unwillingness to pool its $300 million-a-year income with its Arab brothers. As he put it, "Oil, our oil, is not a political commodity of international concern...
Review's nonfiction manages to convey the flavor of the Left Bank's fermenting geniuses and flamboyant phonies, e.g., Editor Plimpton's relaxed biography of an expressionistic dancer named Vali, who invited her friends in to watch her commit suicide, thought better of it, instead turned out some haunting macabre drawings reproduced in the current issue...
Finally, our ideal performer benefits from versatility, from the ability to convey to an audience any reaction to any situation whatsoever at will...