Word: lightheartedness
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Tennessee Williams is much like a schoolboy who pulls the wings off flies to watch them squirm, but in place of flies, the playwright looks at people trapped in their own moral degeneracy. This process is hardly a pleasant one, yet in The Rose Tattoo, Williams very skillfully adapts it...
When the New York City Opera Company stops trying to compete with the Metropolitan and sticks to lighthearted masterpieces or frank innovations-Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Rossini's Cinderella, Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, Berg's Wozzeck-it is hard to beat. But...
Palestrina to Berlin. The French, numbering 32 boys, wore knee pants and white stockings for the secular half of their program (seven, whose voices had changed, wore long pants), switched to white robes for sacred songs. They performed both with easy professionalism. Led by greying, bearlike Monsignor Fernand Maillet, 59...
The austere Times, which errs in the other direction by making all news sound like History, was not being excessively stuffy. The abysmal depths are opening even wider. Last week the tabloid Daily Sketch's, circulation topped the 1,000,000 mark, a sensational rise of nearly 400,000...
Libby entered the inner circle of the AEC in 1950, when Chairman Gordon Dean appointed him to the General Advisory Committee. From his inside vantage point he could watch and play a role in the measured march of the nuclear weapons: first the Abomb; then better A-bombs; then the...