Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Duty & Spirit. Although claques are still common in Italian opera houses, none in years have been organized with the same flair and genius for detail. A onetime aspiring singer, Carrara abandoned his career when his money ran out, now works during the day as a salesman, has been claquing evenings for ten years. Alabisio was a top La Scala tenor under Toscanini in the 1920s. Their basic claque (which they can beef up to 40 on important evenings) includes singing students, teachers, music lovers and two barbers. Perhaps the most dedicated is Claqueur Nino Grassi, 60, who has clapped professionally...
...that of Alexander Hamilton. In these first two volumes of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, which trace him to the age of 27, Hamilton emerges as a dazzlingly brilliant young man, autocratic certainly, but far from austere, a proud and self-confident pragmatist, a deft writer with an equal flair for savage public sarcasm and impassioned private love letters, and a leader who suffered fools...
...style seemed old-fashioned because he did; it had not the bounce and flair of the men whose legislation he had somehow to pass-Franklin Roosevelt, or the present White House staff. But his genius, a novel sort of gift, lay in absorbing unfamiliar legislation and presenting it to the House as something not radical, but necessary, not dangerous, but sound, not suspiciously complex, but homespun and simple as himself...
...Harvard. And the undergraduate philosophizing that he purged from his system in The Great God Brown is both more portentous and less superficial than Kopit's sexual fantasy. His play deals with an artist who has no capacity for work and an architect who has no flair. Dion Anthony, the artist, convinces the world (and specifically the women) that he is inspired. Brown, the architect, has a great ability to produce, but what he has to offer can only be bought, not loved...
...have won her ardent fans in Europe and on records. In the same opera, Negro Tenor George Shirley, 27, last year's Metropolitan Opera Auditions winner, filled in on short notice in the role of Ferrando, carried off the assignment with a handsomely rounded voice and natural dramatic flair. The Met was still suffering from shaky finances, but its voices were suffering from practically nothing...