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...seven soloists also made the rhythms mean something, avoiding the heavy tone so easy in Baroque singing. The women's voices were too frail, but the lines otherwise blended with fluent ease. It is interesting that the very presence of this unusually large group of soloists and of an organ and two strings helped focus our attention on the specific expression in the music. Since the sound and very appearance of a men's chorus have ambiguous associations--with the concert hall and the barber shop--concerts as serious as this one need careful programming to make fully clear...
...last year, the frail health that had given him his tragic dignity began to get the better of him. He developed a grave heart condition, and he was warned to stay away from his ranch, to avoid riding horses and tilting with bulls. But with the spring, Belmonte could not stay away, could not forgo riding Maravilla, his favorite horse. An hour with the bulls last week left him with a pain so intense he feared he would die from it. Finally he made his decision. He mounted Maravilla for a last fond ride across his plain. He spoke with...
...stores. He did a big business in West Point class rings, had a number of prominent friends (among the pictures on his bedroom wall were an autographed photo of Thomas E. Dewey, others of Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio). He lavished affection and money on his frail wife Lillian. (Says she: "I was his queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart ailment, complicated by diabetes. He sold his busi ness and moved to Phoenix. Some time in the next two years he began to plan his appointment in Samarra. He scanned...
Powers' original story of how he was brought down in Russia checked out, the experts agreed. They reached the conclusion that his structurally frail U-2 photo-reconnaissance plane probably had not actually been hit but was downed by a near miss -the "orange flash" Powers reported seeing -probably from a rocket with a proximity fuse. The investigators believe that Powers' U-2 flight was the first in four years to pass directly over a Soviet rocket battery -and that it did not take a very sophisticated Russian effort to bring him down (even a first-generation...
...Lucky Man. In Japanese. Konosuke Matsushita's name means "lucky man beneath the pines," but his success owes more to pluck than luck. While he was still a child, his parents and five of his seven brothers and sisters died in rapid succession, leaving him, a frail orphan, to scratch for a living. With no family to discipline him in the rigid Japanese rules of life, which dictated that a boy must stick with his first employer for life. Matsushita at 1 6 deserted his job as apprentice bicycle repairman to join the Osaka Electric Light Co. because...