Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troublesome score and libretto of Trouble in Tahiti isn't worth the trouble. Leonard Bernstein's pretentiously modern one-act opera is an attack on hollow suburbia. Even in 1952, when it was written, that was a boringly standard iconoclasm. The music is generally wearisome, the libretto, also written by Bernstein, generally clumsy...
...have to build." He sees the committee programs as a necessary first step before Young Dems puts forward any program on a national level. "The first stage has got to be production here, because this is where we're all living for four years--anything else is just a hollow phrase unless you can say this is what we're doing here, where...
...almost cracks with fear. The one female in the production, Sandra Robbins, plays both Belshazzar's queen and the angel. Her soprano voice rings clearly and powerfully over the male voices, and projects almost enough femininity to balance with the rest of the cast. The chorus in solemn, hollow, and always in tune on the difficult modal chants. The small group of instruments is just wispy and scratchy enough to produce a sweetly archaic tone. And the percussion, consisting of a bell, tambourine, triangle, and drum, lends a lilting, ingenuous tone to the music as a whole...
...Finch, soon dons bikini-brief work clothes that scandalize his dedicated kibbutzniks. Her subsequent search leads to Haifa, Damascus, and other Levantine fun spots. Though she occasionally sounds the depths of a woman's revenge, Sophia sticks mainly to Byzantine surface effects. As the farewell gesture of a hollow drama that might have been something more, the young Jewish nation rather incidentally survives the first Arab onslaught-saved by an eyelash, so it seems...
...first time in al most a year. It was a sort of hollow victory, because neither Jack Nicklaus nor Gary Player was entered in the tournament. But it did wonders for Arnie's pride, and it was worth $11,000 -which automatically (since it was the year's first tournament) put Palmer back into his once-familiar position atop pro golfs money-winning list...