Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face and diamond-patch costume. Making frequent use of a real slapstick in hand, he cavorts about with unflagging athleticism, and also functions as the troupe's impresario. With matching costume, Susan Baldwin makes his opposite number, Angelique's servant Claudine, into a sort of Colombine: she needs to convey more of the character's cleverness...
...social-studies department. Scott spends only two hours a day in the classroom-allowing him to pursue his own scholarly research, which in turn he shares with students. He calls textbooks "mere dry husks of facts," insists that youngsters grapple firsthand with the issues and ideas of history. To convey "the human meaning-how people thought and suffered.'' Scott supplies documents that only scholars normally see. All it takes, he says, is a Mimeograph machine, the instrument "that gives back a student's heritage." As Scott sees it ("Historians have to take a stand"), much...
...year-old Captain Shotover Alexander MacMillan struggles manfully with a nearly impossible assignment. Although he has moments of effectiveness, he often overacts, and he does not convey the impression of age. Mr. Lyons (Hector) can not fit his irascible, humorous manner to the serious lines he has to deliver, but when he is supposed to be funny, he frequently...
Please, TIME, convey my hearty thanks to all Americans. I hope that some day I may come to the U.S. and learn how to be kind...
...Italian phrase, "the opera is in the throat." What emerges from Tucker's throat is a warm and sensuous voice, vibrant with emo tional fervor, capable of a lyrical legato or a ringing fortissimo. Tucker uses that voice with precise intelligence, lightening and darkening his tone to convey a whole range of feeling. Among the roles that he has not yet sung at the Met are two that contributed to Caruso's fame: Canio in Pagliacci and the old man Eleazar of Halevy's La Juive, which has not been given at the Met since Martinelli sang...