Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial and triumph. The title role is one of the most exhausting in all opera: Medea is on stage for 80 of the opera's 105 minutes, and during most of that time she is singing strenuously. But Medea also has its great moments, and it provides an ideal vocal showcase for a dramatic soprano. In the last five years, Maria Callas has virtually made the role over in her own fiery image (she will sing it again in November with the Dallas Civic Opera). But San Francisco Opera Director Kurt Adler heard Soprano Farrell sing Medea in concert...
...poetical criterion which has directed Berenson's personal vision; all the more unique for an "expert," (the quotation marks are his own), to say of his ideal, "IT is incapable of analysis, requires no explanations and no apology, is self-evident and right. ... One may sing about it but not discuss it. IT is the most immediate and mystical...
...like sudden fog, a free-floating guilt that seems to swirl around some atavistic memory of the Good Life. Thus an errant wife who has drunk and danced through the night is startled by the birds of dawning: "The pristine light and the loud singing reminded her of some ideal-some simple way of life, in which she dried her hands on an apron and Will came home from the sea-that she had betrayed...
...Justice C. R. "Blackie" Swart would serve as acting Prime Minister, but life will be little different with Strijdom gone. What had given him power was the depressing fact that, to most Afrikaners, Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom's combination of righteousness and ruthlessness seemed to reflect a common ideal...
...molecules is calculated on computers, scaled down to slow motion. Says enthusiastic, new-fledged Film Maker Hildebrand: "We're dealing with complex motions and time effects-different molecules doing different things. We explain each molecule before we combine it into the molecule complex. The motion picture is the ideal medium...