Word: dictional
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Under Mr. Susskind's control, the discussion assumed the chatty quality of his television show, "Open End." He look on almost all the panelists in minor arguments. At one point he faulted Marlon Brando's diction, and Miss Strasberg, which trained Brando, challenged: "They don't teach anyone to mumble, I'll take you on in non-mumbling...
...good French boxers, but Crespin is the grand exception. Born in Marseille in 1927, she made her debut at the Paris Opera at 24 in Lohengrin, and the German repertory has been her forte ever since. Audiences at Bayreuth and Vienna have been astonished by the precision of her diction, a triumph Crespin considers her most significant. "When I have a success," she says, "it is a double one. I always have to fight against the Italian and German sopranos." On her top notes, her insistence on singing all the consonants often makes her voice sound forced, but Crespin...
...Butterfly without a Butterfly is hopelessly disabled: matters were not helped any by Thomas Hayward's inelegant Pinkerton and Umeko Shindo's wobbly Suzuki. Only John Reardon, the Sharpless, did full justice to his music: he sang with richness and strength, and his diction was a lesson to the rest of the cast, though it occasionally uncovered in the English translation such painful bits as: "Oh joyous, happy days of carefree youth...
...garish side, Mary Vogel Walton has a bad diction problem ("lit-tle, Lat-tin, . ."). Despite her handsome bearing, when she opens her enough what comes out is dull, thus reducing the Dean's patron (and former pupil) to a dramatic nonentity, Kathrya Schoes (Cora Jenks) commits the converse sin of unmitigated shricking...
...chair and beat him to death, is busily learning the child-prince role in the summer's last production. Arthur Purnell, n, used to be classified as "retarded" because, says Speeth, "he gives funny answers to people he doesn't like." The same boy's diction in A Midsummer Night's Dream elicited a glowing letter from one of the University of Pennsylvania's top Shakespeare scholars...