Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trovatore will be remembered for the debut of Giulietta Simionato, the great Italian mezzo-soprano who sang Azucene. Simionato is known to record collectors for her superb Rossini performances. Yet, her extraordinary range enables her to perform parts as diverse as Azucena and Santuzza with equal ease and brilliance. Her Trovatore could not have been bettered. In these days when dramatic singers with reliable techniques are rare, a good Azucena, so difficult a part, is harder to find than the "great American opera...
...University, has already produced heartening results. Nearly every official office at Penn displays prominently the fat, red-bound notebooks that contain the Survey's findings to date. Although Harnwell still has a long way to go if he wants to make Penn's College of Arts and Sciences equal to those of the top-ranked institutions, he has at least raised the level of instruction in many of the other undergraduate colleges...
Mild as it was, the new plan pleased no one. Said Group Captain Leslie Briggs, hard-shell leader of the far-right, pure-white United Party: "This is dishonest and dangerous-we would have no right to stop a convicted Mau Mau gangster farming next door to us." With equal vehemence, African Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya denounced the proposals as falling far short of the sweeping redistribution of White Highlands acreage demanded by Africans. Even members of the moderate New Kenya Party, led by Michael Blundell, Kenya's most progressive white politician, raised the outcry that the plan...
...stumbling blocks that wrecked the IATA conference last week were 1) when to cut, and 2) by how much. Under IATA rules every action requires unanimous consent of the lines involved, and each one, big or little, has an equal vote. The result was near-paralysis. As one delegate said: "It was not just a case of the jets v. the jetless. The voting was all over the lot by chaps with pistons, chaps with turboprops and chaps with both, not to speak of some who have jets on order and are now beginning to wonder how they are going...
...unbearable for the children she loves. Miss Graydon's slim figure is adroitly made pathetic by the dresses Angela Brown has hung on her; and the break in her voice keeps always alive a sense that this woman lies on the edge of desperation. Moreover (much moreover), she is equal as an actress to the demands of the part--which is vastly more than can be said for anyone else I can think of in Cambridge. Her fluttery hand-gestures, her nods and becks and agonizingly wreathed smiles are brilliantly done. Her Amanda lacks a final dimension of bravery which...