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Green Sleeves (Peter Hanley; Columbia). Vocalist Hanley, plus some French horns, a chorus and orchestra, in a polished arrangement of one of the loveliest of 16th Century folk songs...
...learned to sing mainly from listening to phonograph records, is the only classical artist in RCA Victor annals to sell in a year more than 1,000,000 copies of a single record (Be My Love). It is a feat the company happily expects him to repeat with The Loveliest Night of the Year. Though he has sung in only one opera (two performances of Madame Butterfly in New Orleans), his phenomenal drawing power in appearances was matched around the U.S. in the past season only by Britain's Sadler's Wells Ballet. His third and latest movie...
...College is at its loveliest during Commencement week. The trees have not yet lost their delicate spring green; the grass is fresh and well manicured; an the Houses have just received a new coat of paint. Surveying the College from across the river at sunset, it all looks pretty fine...
Only a few Hong Kong residents, undeceived by the appearance of normality admitted their concern. Said one Briton, looking down from his Peak apartment at one of loveliest views in the Orient: We all know that some day we shall lose this fair, imperial place. And sometimes I think it would be better to throw it in their bloody teeth now, rather than to give it up inch by inch. But I know we'll never...
...living U.S. poets, none has lodged poems more surely where they will be hard to get rid of. At its best, Frost's crabapple-tart verse distills into the pure liquor of lyric poetry. Stopping by Woods is one of the loveliest poems ever written. Every U.S. schoolboy knows Birches. His lines carry the tone and temper of New England's dour and canny folk, often have the tren chancy and inevitability of folk sayings. Frost has made "good fences make good neighbors"* part of the language. Chores are "doing things over and over that just...