Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BELLINI: NORMA (London; 2 LPs). Bellini's sylvan tragedy is rarely heard onstage, for since Giuditta Pasta introduced it in 1831, only a handful of sopranos have felt equal to the task of impersonating one of the most complex, heroic and appealing roles in opera. The latest soprano in the noble line of Normas is blonde Greek-Argentine Elena Suliotis, 25, who makes the role's demands sound like a cinch. But to entice those who already own the superb Callas Norma, or Sutherland's less successful try, London has reduced this album's price...
...very few real people he has ever portrayed. The 44-year-old artist usually turns out comic-strip-style superheroes with square jaws and their girl friends with superperfect coiffures. What he liked most about Kennedy, he says, was his "lively, upstart quality and pop-heroic proportions as part of a legend...
...attitude. Above all, he must accept his majority share of responsibility for the race problem. If the white is genuinely concerned about forming a useful coalition with the black, he will certainly have to drop his guard-and, beyond that, he will have to accept less than a heroic role. Says Harvard Theologian Harvey Cox: "Individuals must ask: 'Just how serious am I about this? Am I willing to be criticized by my neighbors? Can I pursue my normal career with single-mindedness without trying to do something...
Riding also seems to answer some deepseated, atavistic urge. Movie and TV westerns have kept alive the picture of the cowboy as a heroic figure, and many first-time owners, especially men, prefer to ride Western. But such tack is not for the upwardly mobile. For the ladies, the model is Jacqueline Kennedy astride her bay gelding Winchester, while the daughters as avidly keep track of Caroline's every outing with her ponies Macaroni or Leprechaun. Sniffs a Boston dentist, whose whole family rides English, outfitted in boots, breeches and hard hats: "After all, if you ride, you should...
Back in 1927, the same year that Charles Lindbergh made his heroic solo flight across the Atlantic, a young Yale University graduate named Juan Terry Trippe founded a modest air service that shuttled mail between Florida and Cuba. Both events have loomed large in the history of aviation. Lindbergh's flight pointed up aviation's expanding potential, and Trippe's little business eventually grew into Pan American World Airways, the world's largest international airline. Last week in Manhattan, when Trippe, now 68, finally bowed out as Pan Am's boss, it seemed altogether fitting...