Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sills moves from misery to compassion (for her successor Jane Seymour), and then on to resolute acceptance of her fate, is a memorable lesson in the essential operatic art of building toward the big moment. Though not actually shown, the execution by ax is marvelously anticipated by Sills' clutching at her neck at the final curtain. As Henry, Baritone Robert Hale, 40, is a believably gruff, gout-ridden and girl-crazy monarch, dominating the stage in a way that disguises the fact that he does not have one solo aria...
...Allen Drury and Tom Wicker (the novelist) share with Richard Nixon a common flaw: all have failed to make our capital city believable. One explanation of why Washington fiction is so lame may be that while the stages and settings are of heroic size and the plots involve the fate of nations, the figures shouting speeches and shaking swords seem absurdly tiny...
There is no shame in an opinion so ambivalent, for lack of greatness ought not to mean a forgotten fate. Over and over music lovers are subjected to the same round of classical symphonies. The Sullivan deserves hearing both for the perspective it would restore on the greatest works and for its own considerable intrinsic worth...
...these films seems too mild to be politically controversial today, as their attacks on war and poverty seemed when they were made. If the modern political films at Harvard Square this week--Millhouse: A White Comedy and State of Siege--seem heavy handed by comparison, think about the fate of the humane approach in Chile, where State of Siege was filmed only a little over a year...
...When you are labeled 'serious' in the U.S., you are expected to wear a long face all the time. I don't agree." He was fond of adding in defense of craftsmanship, "Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are irresponsible puppets of fate and charm...