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...training school taught 11,000 Air Corps cadets how to fly. But at war's end, Ryan, like other planemakers, went into a dive. He slashed his work force from 8,500 to 850; to keep them busy, he started making a streamlined casket which he called the "Grecian Urn." It just about buried Ryan; in 1947 the company lost...
Flagstad was statuesque in the white robes of the Grecian queen, yet touchingly human at the same time. As always, her voice filled the cavernous Met with its thrilling power. But it was also rich with an expressiveness that seems to grow more poignant with the years. Tenor Brian Sullivan sang his role of Admetus powerfully, if not always as cleanly as the classical style demands. The staging was a trifle fussy, and the corps de ballet postured like so many figures on a Grecian urn. But alongside the triumphs of the performance, the defects were minor. Top honors: Kirsten...
...there unearthed the tombs of the Mycenaean kings with their treasures of gold and priceless antiquities, and on again to Orchomenus in the Peloponnesus, where he uncovered the legendary treasury of King Minyas, and to Tiryns, the birthplace of Hercules, where he revealed the largest citadel of the Grecian world. At last, at the age of 68, Schliemann committed the only anticlimax of his career-he died in Naples of a sudden infection...
...hope that Jew and gentile may fashion an intellectual merger of their complementary talents. Too much the speculative philosopher to say exactly how, Ussher does leave a gentle trail of hints. The Jews, he implies, might take less heed of the Talmud's warning ("Go not near the Grecian wisdom-it has no fruit but only blossoms") and flavor their love of practical purpose with a dash of the gentile gift for the fanciful. Gentiles, on the other hand, might do well to stop hymning their capacity for "the purest intuitions," which have a nasty habit of emerging...
Galatea, the old story of Pygmalion and the beautiful statue come to life, was done in the classic style of Viennese operetta. Its star: blonde Soprano Virginia Haskins, of Manhattan's City Opera. Wearing a Grecian gown slit nearly to the hip, she romped through the score with lyric grace, fine acting and plenty of thigh. Menotti's brassy Amelia, with the Met's Eleanor Steber, kept up the hoyden theme. Soprano Steber's rich, gusty voice was just right for the girl who has made up her mind to go to the dance, though Steber...