Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Blood. Young Clements' blooding came in his second performance. In Nuevo Laredo, before an Easter-week crowd, a bull slashed at him, and the horn pierced his groin, requiring seven stitches. Baron never faltered. "Can you go on?" asked Franklin fearfully. "Sure," he replied, and forthwith dispatched the bull. But Clements felt that he had failed the spectators. "The people expected perfection," he says. "They have a full right to expect it, and I expect them to expect it, and I intend to give it. When I don't give it, I expect them to be disappointed...
Clements is now booked well ahead in provincial arenas, hopes to return to Spain and fight as a full-fledged matador by next Easter. Sidney Franklin is convinced that his young charge is going to be great. Says he: "Nobody in Mexico has his style and manner in killing. And only one-Antonio Ordóñez-can match him in Spain...
...First Easter, Marshall...
...kids down from prep school for Easter vacation were puzzled by this heroine of another generation and probably confirmed in their judgment of that generation as hopelessly square. But the squares themselves glowed under Betty's apple-pie charm. They were perhaps a little disappointed by the show, but at 42 or thereabouts, Betty still has the legs everyone remembers-almost...
...first two movements were given a measured, careful reading which was typical of the whole performance. The concert opened with Corelli's Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.1, giving the strings a chance to shine, followed by a gracious but strong Beethoven 8th Symphony. The closing number, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture called upon the sonority and balanced ensemble work which is perhaps the orchestra's greatest asset...