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...that he, the lover of the clean direct English language, could have inspired such writing as Buechler's! For example: "But time was when a grown man, maybe he was middle-aged already, and standing square on his own two feet in his overcoat and suit and vest, malory fedora, the best necktic he had left and a watch chain if he'd held on to it, was a grateful man to have it, and a college graduate." Orwell would have laughed and said, "Come off it, Buechler," and as usual he would have been right...
...same time, somewhere along the Charles River, a little man with a battered fedora has been figuring the chances of his eight varsity oarsmen defying the hereafter and breaking Navy's undefeated streak. Nearly every afternoon since 1952, when he became varsity coach, Harvey Love has planned to beat Navy. For three straight years these plans have been frustrated...
Composer Giordano (1867-1948) made his most successful effort with Chénier (others: Fedora, Madame Sans-Gene). The opera's melodies may sing a little too much like Verdi's without Verdi's dramatic thrust; its flow may be as slippery as Wagner's without Wagner's soaring sense of continuity. But it has a ravishing choral addio (Act I), a roof-raising farewell duet, and cannily applause-getting arias for all of its principal singers...
...misty, muggy Washington morning last week, House Speaker Joseph Martin Jr. tucked his shaggy forelock under a soft fedora, put on his new gale coat, shook hands with Vice President Richard Nixon and boarded a chartered airliner. A few minutes later, Dick Nixon climbed into another plane, took his seat and promptly fell asleep. His immediate destination was Columbus; Martin's was Newark. The two top Republican congressional campaigners were off on the first legs of journeys which would carry them the length and breadth of the land before the November elections...
...complicated cadenzas with a generous use of her pearly pianissimo, came dramatically and vocally into her own in the second and third acts and at the end, despite signs of weariness (she began to sing sharp), won a personal ovation. Most thrilling moments: her soaring duets with Mezzo-Soprano Fedora Barbieri...