Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Critic Olin Downes once noted that Tebaldi's strapping Mimi bore little resemblance to the fragile figure Puccini and Murger conceived her to be; but he added that Tebaldi sang so movingly, with such tragic overtones, that her "enlarged portrait" emerged as more compelling than the original. The same thing might be said of most of her famous roles: in the end, a colleague notes, "they always come out Tebaldi...
...occasional attempts to introduce visual fire to her performances, she inclines to what one critic called "the battering-ram approach." This was noticeable again in her Chicago Butterfly, in which, after committing suicide, she flung the knife resoundingly to the floor and died somewhat grotesquely, crawling the width of the stage in response to Pinkerton's thrice-called "Butterfly!" But her real failing, say her harshest critics, is not one of stagecraft but of emotional involvement. While some observers recall her on the verge of tears after a performance of Butterfly, others remember her picking herself up after...
...second running of the sweepstakes this year, separate three-man juries in 22 countries (each with its own $1,000 national winner) were set up to ensure that only the best reached the finish line. Fortnight ago three top jurists (British Critic Sir Herbert Read, former Director General of French Museums Georges Salles and British Painter Morris Kestelman) were flown to Manhattan, repaired to a storage warehouse to inspect the final 114 oils and pick the grand-prize winner. "It was very quiet," chuckled Georges Salles. "We sat in three chairs like the three judges of Hell...
...first part of the symposium which was devoted to a more general discussion of drama criticism, Norton suggested three questions that the critic should answer: "What is the playwright trying to do, has he done it, and was it worth doing in the first place...
Brooks Atkinson, drama critic for the New York Times, disagreed with Norton's stand and said he felt that a small theatre would be "more practical." "For amateur actors, a 500-seat auditorium can be much more merciful," he commented...