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...four unfavorable reviews by Hague critics and five favorable reviews by Amsterdam critics. The home and office telephone numbers of the Hague critics were printed, and readers who disagreed with them were respectfully urged to call up the critics and discuss the matter. By week's end one distraught Hague critic, with a ringing in his ear, was planning...
Herman Melville was in hock to his publishers and out of favor with his pubic. Moby Dick had provoked mixed reviews; its successor, Pierre, got savage ones. His readers wanted him to spin more of his early, popular South Sea romances such as Typee and Omoo. Exhausted and distraught, Melville developed neurotic mental tics and jumpy relatives made tentative moves to have him declared insane. His wife was soon to voice her special qualms in a letter to her mother: "Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around...
...Puccini's melodramatic opera proceeded, Soprano Price's quietly expressive acting began to tell and she became Floria Tosca, coquettish in the arms of her handsome lover (handsomely sung by Tenor David Poleri), murderous in the arms of the villainous police chief (Baritone Josh Wheeler), and distraught at her lover's death. Vocally, she was head and shoulders above the others, crooning pearly high notes here, dropping into gutty dramatic tones there. She sang the great second-act aria, Vissi d'arte (rendered in English as "Love of beauty") with a flair worthy...
Seven Brothers. The commissioners moved on, and friends comforted distraught Luca Eller with assurances that the border was still only provisional and might yet be rectified with small adjustments. (As a matter of fact, the agreement specifically provides against cutting houses in two.) Meanwhile, Luca Eller and family sadly set to moving as much furniture as they could into the Italian side of their internationalized farm house...
...Memorial Hall bell tower, stretched her arms after a long sleep and decided it was time for a trial spin on her broomstick to get in shape for Halloween. Skirting Lowell House, a chance breeze blew her into an open window. As she recovered her balance, a distraught young man leaped to his feet, hastily brushing la little pile of dirt under the rug with his hand...