Word: cosy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sister Lorenzina has practical proof for her point: listed on the masthead by her given name of Olga Guidetti, she is the editor of a not-quite-slick-paper magazine named Cosi (Thus), which is published and staffed by the Daughters of St. Paul and is a successful weekly entry in the fiercely competitive Italian field of popular magazines for women...
Skirting the Stars. Cosi, along with its rivals, has no real counterpart in U.S. journalism; it combines the fashion-consciousness of an especially demure Vogue with the love stories of a particularly sedate Redbook, the gossip columns of the less sensational U.S. movie magazines with the diet and beauty advice of a Ladies' Home Journal. Among its features is a weekly horoscope; Cosi skirts church objections with a cautionary footnote reminding readers that human will is independent of the stars...
...Today is Mozart's birthday," Boris Goldovsky said Wednesday evening, "and we are dedicating this performance to him as a birthday present." The New England Opera Theater's Cosi is competent and buoyant enough in the singing, rather dry and prosaic in the orchestral playing. Mr. Goldovsky conducts almost every number too fast, but the fine voices and fluent technique of the singers (especially the men--John McCollum, Robert Paul and Ronald Holgate, and Wednesday's Fiordiligi, Marguerite Willauer) go at least a little ways toward rescuing the situation. The staging, also Mr. Goldovsky's, is brisk though not particularly...
...operatic production, but it is an inadequate production of Cosi, for which good intentions are not enough. If it is right to bring Mozart before the public even in slightly marred versions, it is also right to lavish exceptional amounts of care and money on him, and Wednesday night's under-rehearsed orchestra evinced neither. The New England Opera Theater might also remember this when producing Mozart: except for a small amount of recitative, a professional company has no right to cut the operas. Length is no excuse; audiences can easily take three and a half hours of Mozart...