Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether anyone actually sings along with the sing-along albums probably does not bother bearded Idea Man Miller. It is a little difficult to picture the sentimental householder warming up his woofer, dusting off his diamond needle, and joining in for an evening of mooed music. More likely, the nation's mature citizens are merely striking back at rock 'n' roll, buying the sing-alongs because they like listening to simple, straight songs...
...from their parents. He is fortunate to have as the children plaintive, pony-tailed Carol Lynley, 17. and blond, handsome 17-year-old Brandon de Wilde, who has acquired longer legs and a deeper voice since he played the small boy in Shane. Both are quietly affecting in the difficult acting chore of seeming ineffectual...
...longer speeches, however, trip him up. He fails to convey all the sense, the rhythm, and the grandeur. He has not yet wholly mastered the difficult art of breathing properly, so that he often pauses at the end of a line when the thought demands that he go right on to the next...
...Harvard Summer Theatre Group, in choosing this play, has tackled the most difficult task that any summer student company has ever undertaken here. Its ambitiousness has resulted in a highly entertaining production, which opens this evening after an invitational preview last night...
Exciting the jaded tastes of record buyers is becoming increasingly difficult, and one approach is the dazzling package. Example: RCA Victor is releasing good versions of such standard items as The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Force of Destiny (monaural and stereophonic) in impressive boxes with brass fittings and color-dripping illustrations. Another and more daring approach is to look for obscure, rarely or never-recorded works. Part of the recent growth of operatic exotica is London's Giuditta (three mono and stereo), the principal serious effort of Vienna's operetta master, Franz Lehar...