Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bradley did not tell us a story: she just read biblical inscriptions. And when the chorus intoned (correctly) "heretofore" and "Israel" with equal stress on each syllable, it was almost laughable. Yet despite the natural problems of pitch, the chorus and soloists did master the music, no mean feat. A performance keyed to the drama of the story could enliven the work, but its little-varied tension is really a pretentious archaism relying more on a cliched aura of biblical language than on the content of the words themselves...
...fantastic sphere of a child's imagination--a world upside-down--offers ample material for an artistic enterprise but is rather difficult to make appealing to an adult mind. Miss Siegl's triumph is to achieve this feat with highly pleasing results...
...four came to the Met after distinguished triumphs abroad. Tucker arrived in 1945 after several appearances with a small opera company, a feat equivalent to a baseball player's joining the New York Yankees after a couple of weeks of sandlot ball. But Tucker had honed his voice as a member of his synagogue choir on the Lower East Side, later as a cantor (he still forgoes all performances to officiate at services during the fall High Holy Days and the spring Passover...
...Crimson whipped Army, 5 to 1, in December, but several factors make a repetition of this feat somewhat unlikely. Even though the Cadets held the varsity to a scoreless tie until 18:10 of the second period, they were playing without their star, Jerry Stonehouse. Stonehouse has tallied 88 points for the Cadets since returning to action after Christmas...
...four years, Rockefeller has managed the notable feat of paying state expenses from current income while reducing past debt. One reason the legislators were anxious for a bread-and-butter issue that would win votes in the November election was that Rocky had discontinued the state's 10% personal-income-tax rebate-and thus, in effect, raised taxes-to help balance his record $2.6 billion budget for 1962-63. By placing fiscal responsibility over political expediency, he chagrined both veterans and legislators, but he also reaped himself a political bonus for political and fiscal responsibility...