Word: flawlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrewd, music-loving publishers.* In their survey of more than three centuries of opera they give some bassoon blatts to some of opera's most sacred cows (Wagner's Parsifal is largely "plain dreary"). Brockway and Weinstock ticket Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera for its less-than-flawless taste, convict it of indifference to native opera...
...singers, only one of whom was over 40, voiced their airs and ensembles with Mozartean freshness and purity. Only one had big-time stage experience-Ina Souez, who was born Ina Rains in Denver, and had sung in Cosi jan tutte in Glyndebourne, England, where costly and flawless Mozart performances were given before...
Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). Bearded Brahms at his most robust; performance, perfect; recording, flawless...
Other standouts for the Ramblers were Dick Loomis, last year's all-House center, whose kicking and passing was flawless, Paul Quinn, who intercepted two Eliot passes; and Mel Helpern, former all-House back, who powered his way through the Elephant line on more than one occasion...
...while all this made Chiang Kai-shek beamish with joy, Dan Arnstein's mission was scarcely a flawless triumph. Knowing little, caring nothing about protocol and the sanctity of face in the Orient, at Chungking receptions the hardhitting ex-cabby and his blunt, breezy manner had Occidental diplomats squirming in suspense. Once, when a secretary from the U.S. Embassy inquired fretfully why he had not called on Ambassador Clarence Gauss, only the Chinese guests seemed to enjoy his typical retort: "Why should I?" snapped Arnstein. "I don't know...