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...undertaking My Darlin' Aida, Librettist Friedman was frankly inspired by the success of Carmen Jones. But there are great differences, not just between him and the much defter Oscar Hammerstein II, but between the parent operas themselves. Carmen has a vivid, earthy, human story; Aida's is unreal and faraway. Carmen, again, has the theater blood of the opera comique; Aida possesses both the stiffness and the elevation of truly grand opera. Where many operas-La Traviata, Tosca, La Boheme-might be at home on Broadway, not only must the story of Aida be revamped; the finer values...
Before the crowd at center court had time to catch its breath, broad-backed (5 ft. 10 in., 170 Ibs.), blond Lewis ("The Truck Driver") Hoad, who balefully blasts the ball, in contrast to Rosewall's defter touch, was meeting 1950 Title-holder Larsen. The U.S.'s No. 3, a retriever, was whipped...
Daley once admired Con the Greyhound for giving the wind a head start and then beating it, and Shaun the Bullock, who could hold himself out at arm's length. But Finn was faster than one, stronger and defter than the other. Concluded Daley: "Bad cess to those who doubt...
...Longhorns were descendants of those Spanish cattle which Columbus brought into the West on his second voyage. They evolved in the Mexican wilderness, perfected themselves in Texas. They had racehorse legs and tails that dragged the ground and defter noses than deer, being able to scent water at ten miles...
Meanwhile the Duchess* of York, busying herself less royally, set about to direct a score of thick-sinewed titans who swarmed into White Lodge, the pleasant ducal residence at Richmond Park. Under her watchful eye the defter titans packed costly gold and silver plate, shifted it into panting moving vans already piled with trunks and boxes and chugged away...