Word: faultlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made of it. She is too busy justifying Branwell to do psychological justice to his twisted life. As a boy, Branwell was startlingly precocious. At eight, he could commit a page to memory on a single reading, repeat a lesson verbatim, store away names, dates, and places with faultless recall. Ambidextrous, he could write two letters at once. His proud, high-strung curate father had been left a widower with six small children, five of them girls (the two oldest later died of malnutrition at boarding school), and he yearned to be a soldier, away from the gloomy, death-haunted...
...voice is full-bodied and rich, the diction faultless, the rhythm and phrasing reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald. To a casual record store browser it might signify the most exciting new popular singing talent to come along in years. But the voice is not new. It belongs to a great lieder singer, a standout oratorio performer (Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Handel's Messiah), and a star of such operas as La Gioconda and Medea. The singer: Eileen Farrell. probably the finest dramatic soprano in the U.S., who will make her Met debut next season in Gluck's Alceste...
...fingernails till they are crisscrossed with red gashes and running with tears and blood. In the mesmeric half-trance of the dirge, the singer has been known to drift far out and lament high taxes, the price of salt, the need for roads, and the Bulgarian frontier-all in faultless couplets. Sans couplets, but with 20/20 sight and insight, Author Fermor has fashioned a durable portrait of the enduring people who inhabit the mythical rock garden of the gods...
Handling her big, liquid soprano voice with faultless accuracy, Singer Price achieved an Aïda that was at once feline and tender, sweet and aggressive. She won bravas after her opening trio with Radames and Amneris (a place in the opera that has not drawn applause at La Scala in years), got many more ovations as she ranged effortlessly from finespun pianissimos to brilliantly ringing fortes. "Brava, Leonessa!" cried someone in the audience, while a second voice corrected: "She is more like a panther than a lioness." Said one critic: "Our great Verdi would have found her the ideal...
Teleknight? If he keeps it up, Richard Dimbleby may well become what many British show people hope he will be: the first knight of television. He has lent his faultless, icky-wicket comments to nearly every royal occasion since World War II, including the funeral of King George VI, the wedding and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. A merry, good-tempered pro, he was the BBC's first war correspondent, even broadcast from a Royal Air Force bomber on a raid over Berlin. In 1945, he was arrested in Berlin by suspicious Russian soldiers, won his freedom...