Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleman of flawless Harvard accent and Parisian mien is Dr. Vikyuin Wellington Koo, the great Chinese diplomat who is now Minister to France, who held the like post in Washington and London, who has dominated Chinese diplomacy at every World Conference from Versailles to the London Economic, was acting Premier of China for eight months a decade ago and who last week at Geneva presided over the 96th session of the League Council as its president. ¶ Fresh from Madrid arrived the Council's special Medical Commission of two French doctors and one Polish to report "the health...
...component parts, the production of Shaw's "Saint Joan" which Katharine Cornell is now displaying at the Opera House commands designation as the climax of a long and varied theatrical season. A superbly talented cast has been welded into an almost flawless presentation of a spectacularly brilliant, mordantly witty and powerfully moving play...
...have been known to give so much substance to their music, to play with such clarity, such a grasp of structure. The many moods Schnabel projects offer eloquent proof of the years he has devoted to the study of Beethoven. Peak performance last week was the abused Appassionata, a flawless realization of the composer at his stormiest which had all the more meaning because it never went wild. Because encores destroy the balance of his programs, this purist refuses to play them, just as he refuses to waste his time on frothy, mediocre music. Most pianists would be vastly impressed...
...Jeanette responding, somewhat coyly, but with all her heart. This is ample recommendation for any eighty minutes' entertainment, and it should send you packing off for a bit of musical ecstasy. For to the untrained ear at least, both of their throats sound golden, and the recording, equally flawless...
...Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Flagstad exhibited a voice so clear and powerful, so even throughout its range, so flawless in its phrasing that most critics went ecstatic. Four days later came Tristan und Isolde and all hats were in the air. Flagstad could sing. Though she indulged in no pyrotechnics, she was quietly effective as she raised the cup, offered the love potion to Tristan. Again at the end she reached rare heights when, with her voice still fresh and sure, she kneeled beside Tristan's body and sang the demanding Liebestod...