Word: limpidness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also notable: an alternately brusque and limpid Sonata for Piano Four Hands by Harold Shapero, a crisp woodwind Quartet in C by Arthur Berger, both of Brandeis University; a series of gay brevities called Music for a Farce by Author-Composer Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles. All were recorded under the com posers' personal supervision, a sometimes questionable practice that here results in some good performances...
Gounod: Faust (Victoria de los Angeles, Nicolai Gedda, Boris Christoff; Chorus and Orchestra of L'Opera, Paris, conducted by Andre Cluytens; Victor, 4 LPs). The third "complete" version of this tinseled old warhorse, notable for the properly terrifying Mephistopheles of Basso Christoff and the limpid-voiced Marguerite of Soprano de los Angeles. Contains the usually omitted ballet music for the Walpurgis Night...
Sylvia Russell's complexion was pale olive and her eyes were limpid hazelgreen, but her hair was her crowning glory. It was what British Guiana called "Good Hair": it came flaxen straight from her immigrant cockney father and gave no hint, by frizz or kink, that Sylvia's mother was "a low-class girl" of "Buck" (Guiana Indian) and Negro parentage. Sylvia could not claim to belong to "the respectable middle class" of old and established colored families, but she was tony enough to attend the Georgetown academy of Miss Jenkins (a colored lady who passed for white...
Exquisitely blending queenly dignity and bubbling mischief, a stick-slim actress with huge, limpid eyes and a heart-shaped face was teaching U.S. moviegoers last week a lesson they already knew and loved -i.e., that the life of a princess is not a happy one. Balcony bobby-soxers for years have shed pleasant tears at the plight of trapped royalty, and breathed a happy sigh of relief when at last the royal one escapes into a commoner's arms (Olivia de Havilland and a handsome pilot in 1943's Princess O'Rourke; Vera-Ellen...
...When the first hound cleared the final obstacle and streaked into the homestretch, the "catchers," i.e., owners and handlers, began whooping up a strictly legal bedlam, whistling shrilly and waving scarves to guide the hounds across the finish line. The winner, and current favorite for the H.T.A. championship: a limpid-eyed, three-year-old dog named Ravensbarrow, whose Lancashire farmer owner, Roger Hudson, proudly collected a poor man's purse...