Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fears of Europeans who thought that they would not be allowed to settle their own destinies rested on a false premise. The U.S. has no desire and no intention of sitting down with Khrushchev in a new Yalta on the Potomac, disposing of one crisis after another in a grand "world settlement." The U.S. is fully aware that if it did so, it would only alienate its most valued friends; furthermore, anything negotiated would also require U.S. Senate approval. Such a deal is simply not in the cards. What the new trend in Big Twoness does foreshadow is the possibility...
Siobhan McKenna's Lady Macbeth is a most impressive and consistent performance. For her first entrance she makes a long, grand sweep, with lengthy red tresses flowing down her green gown. Before she has uttered a syllable, we know that this is a woman to be reckoned with, a woman of enormous inner strength. She is able to go on to make it clear that she does not covet the crown just for her own sake but wants her husband to be king at any costs because she is so much in love with him. She introduces a novel twist...
...such official statements were too grand for so sentimental an occasion. One of the U.S. arrivals was so taken with emotion that he could not answer questions at customs, and soon the customs inspector was weeping too. One Lebanese mountaineer had carefully rehearsed one English phrase of greeting, boomed out "Hi, buddy," then lapsed into a rattle of Arabic. Some of the Americans' fractured Arabic was just as incomprehensible to their old-country friends. Michael Borane, 65, of Phoenix, Ariz., who had not been back to Beirut since he left at eight, doggedly set out to find his father...
...Another and more daring approach is to look for obscure, rarely or never-recorded works. Part of the recent growth of operatic exotica is London's Giuditta (three mono and stereo), the principal serious effort of Vienna's operetta master, Franz Lehar, who had lifelong pretensions to grand opera. First produced at the Vienna State Opera in 1934 when Lehar was 63, the work has to do with a Carmen-like doxy in an unidentified southern fishing town who heaps misery on herself and her one true love. The gaudily exotic score boasts some sweetly melting arias...
Growing old and a trifle gnarled, the grand dame of British art still paints every day in her London "workshop." "It's not grand enough to call a studio," she insists, adding, rightly, that she is "not a great painter." But, she says, "it's not for lack of darned hard work. I never had more money than I needed. I am thankful to have known the facts and struggles of a common life." Humility shines through Dame Laura's art-and so does humanity...