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...quite disguise the catch in his throat. Of the nearly 300 songs in Coward's collection, the dead-on love ballads are the weakest: "Time and tide can never sever/ Those whom love has bound forever" serves to remind the reader that Coward grew up in the Edwardian heyday. But such songs as I'll See You Again, Someday I'll Find You and A Room with a View display the author's unique amalgam of anticipation and nostalgia ("Time may he heavy between,/ But what has been/ Is past forgetting...
...from the efforts of overstrained tenors, but the air is clearer at the higher vocal elevations. In Hildegard Behrens and Eva Marlon, both in their early 40s, there are two formidable sopranos who between them may rule the dramatic repertory for at least the next decade. Not since the heyday of Birgit Nilsson, now 67 and retired from the opera stage, has there been a singer who dominated the German roles and triumphed in dramatic Italian parts as well. What set Nilsson apart was not only the breadth of her rep ertoire but her vocal command. That famed voice, instantly...
...spent). Paige predicts the anti-abortion movement will continue to live and, perhaps, prosper. While the more political conservative groups had bolstered the right to life movement financially, the subsequent dissolution of the "winning coalition" has allowed the fundamentalist drive to recover some of its ideological purity. During the heyday of the groups collaboration, anti-abortionists had to struggle with the philosophical tension between their own "pro-life" claims and the Darwinistic ideals of the conservatives. Noting this internal contradiction, columnist Ellen Goodman wrote a couple years ago that the New Right "was great on getting you born." but showed...
...built them. Increasingly devoid of people and a reason for being, Nicodemus, the only remaining black settlement in Kansas, is almost literally drying up and blowing away in the dusty prairie winds. Before it does, the HABS team is drawing a reconstructed plan of the town during its heyday and chronicling its social and cultural history. Says Team Member Ruth Pharr, 24, a British archaeologist studying at Kansas State: "This is a fascinating exercise in detective work...
With few exceptions, Wright's pieces still look good-not elegant or sophisticated like a Barcelona chair, but pleasing and "user friendly." They remain contemporary, a word often used in Wright's heyday partly to overcome the prevailing resistance to "modern" and partly because, like Danish furniture, Russel Wright designs were different in spirit from the work introduced by New York City's Museum of Modern...