Word: joans
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...1950s, among other roles, she almost singlehanded revived the ornate bel canto repertory of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. (Bel canto, literally "beautiful singing," more properly applies to the whole vocal art of making the fiendishly difficult sound easy.) It is this repertory that Beverly and her chief coloratura rival, Joan Sutherland (see box, page 81), have since then mastered. Beverly comes by the bel canto tradition not only through her admiration for Callas, but through years of study with the late Estelle Liebling. Miss Liebling was, professionally speaking, a direct descendant of the 19th century's Mathilde Marchesi, the influential...
...Joan Tighe, media relations staff member of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ) said yesterday that the new apathy has compelled a reordering of Movement priorities. The PCPJ was an umbrella group sponsoring the proposed rally...
...JOAN SELLEY...
W.W.F. is not without its critics, many of them environmental activists who feel that fund members take a dilettante view of conservation. "What they do is fine," says Joan McIntyre, a member of the New York City-based Friends of the Earth. "The problem lies more in what they haven't got around to doing." W.W.F., she says, does not feel that all wildlife is threatened. Instead, it spends "vast amounts of money saving a few pitiful animals as curiosities and putting them in game preserves...
That may be, but Joan Ganz Cooney, the Workshop's president, will run continuous tests on the effectiveness of the show and try to rejigger it accordingly as the season progresses. The same spirit of self-criticism appears on air. Constantly carping at the teachings of other characters and at the idiosyncrasies of the English language is an off-camera omnipresence named J. Arthur Crank...