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...sounds began in 1958 with a Rome performance of John Cage's Aria with Fontana Mix, in which phrases in English, French, Italian, Armenian and Russian were scattered all over the scale, with marginal indications that they be sung in a "baby or Marilyn Monroe voice," a "Marlene Dietrich foggy voice," or a jazz singer's voice. There were also-as there are in much of the music she sings-passages calling for whatever noises she cared to make -a dog's bark, a grunt, a sigh. The audience responded with plain fury, moving Cage to recite...
...Harshest? But for all such doubts and disagreements, there was an air of somnolence about the debate. In the first couple of days, the biggest attraction was Actress Marlene Dietrich, who turned up for a while in the gallery. Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, wasted a fiery speech on a near-empty chamber. Pastore passionately flung open his blue blazer, clapped his hand over his chest and declared: "I say to those who have doubts about the treaty that I want them to open their hearts and look into their consciences. I want...
...primarily an administrator or church politician but a pastor, a father-in-God whose task is less to change the world now, and more to prepare men's hearts and minds for Christ's coming. Although he reads and absorbs such radical theo logians as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Ru dolf Bultmann, he preaches an oldfashioned, timeless spirituality that echoes the language of the Authorized Version. "By sophisticated attempts to be contemporary at all costs," he said once, "we blunt the force that lies in the universal imagery of the Bible: bread, water, light, darkness, wind, fire, rain, hunger...
Little else daunts Lloyd's. It has covered Durante's nose, Dietrich's legs, Callas' voice and Nikita Khrushchev's safety on his 1959 visit to the U.S. Many fathers of newborn twins have collected from Lloyd's, and 20th Century-Fox recovered $2,000,000 from Lloyd's when Elizabeth Taylor's illness delayed the filming of Cleopatra. Ever alert to a little publicity when the price is right, Lloyd's even covered a Manchester cinema against its patrons' strain, wrench or rupture due to "excessive laughter...
...edgy feeling to see that Enrico Caruso, silent these many years, is right behind him, having posthumously grown in popularity from 20 to 36, thanks to reissues of old recordings. Mario Del Monaco is the most recorded tenor with 39, Fernando Corena the most recorded basso (38), and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with an astonishing jump from 46 to 82 recordings, the busiest baritone...