Word: lustrous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...larger theme. It demands great powers of eloquence and intellect, a burning air of exaltation that Playwright Chayefsky does not fully command. But he does possess high gifts of humor, characterization, and a sense of the dominion and perplexity of faith, and these help make his play a lustrous and compelling experience...
Last week's performance was superb, with Soprano Price handling her warm and lustrous voice impeccably, and infusing the figure of Minnie with a believable passion that might have surprised even Playwright Belasco. Tenor Richard Tucker did an admirable job as Dick Johnson, the silliest role in the opera, and Baritone Anselmo Colzani, the only Italian among the principal characters, swashbuckled through the role of the sheriff like a refugee from Gunsmoke. And although the opera provided few memorable arias (one striking exception: Johnson's "Ch'ella mi creda libero"), it had a score full of surgingly...
...Introit, Greenberg unfolded all his resources. Directing in a smooth, flowing manner, he did meticulous justice to Isaac's complexity. The choirboys never failed to add a lustrous openness to the awesome fourths that characterize this musical idiom...
...concert and disk performer, she stepped on the operatic stage wrapped mainly in a glittering European reputation. Regally got up in golden headdress and pearl-spattered green gown, she floated onto a moonlit stage in the second scene of Act I and filled the house with warm and lustrous sound in her beautiful aria Tacea la notte. With a fine economy of gesture and movement throughout the long evening, she acted a passionate Leonora...
Unwelcome Brass. With all its size and success, the peacetime Stars and Stripes is only a dim reflection of its violent and lustrous past. First published intermittently by Union troops during the Civil War, it was revived for the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, became a little-censored, undisciplined and often brilliant weekly with enlisted and commissioned giants on its staff-among them, Private Harold Ross (who went on to found The New Yorker), Sergeant Alexander Woollcott, Lieut. Grantland Rice and Captain Franklin P. Adams...