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...write a clever review without taking a negative approach, couldn't you just for once be a little less condescending in your evaluation and exhibit a little more forthright enthusiasm...
...than pride and firmness. As Tiresias, Bentley Layton had warmth and resonance, too, but made the jagged melodic line too fluid. Lacking great vocal strength, he presented a too apologetic Tiresias. The result of both solos was closer to the personal expressiveness of Carissimi's Jeptha than the square, forthright objectivity of Stravinsky's score...
Dimitri Villard as Neoptolemus brought little insight and meager stage presence to a demanding part. Neoptolemus, an honest, forthright youth, is forced by Odysseus into a double reversal of character. In order to fool. Philoctetes, he must pretend to be naive, that is, he must "play" himself. Villard's vapid interpretation excluded all this complexity. Thus, when the time came for him to break down and tell all to Philoctetes, he had not prepared the audience with any previous dramatic tension. His moment fizzled...
TIME is to be commended for its forthright reporting on fluoridation...
...your article "Spirit v. Reality," you are to be commended for your incisive and forthright analysis of the "halfway house...