Word: lyrically
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...coveted it for years. But Soprano Callas-who insists that she must be the highest-paid member of any company in which she sings-indignantly refused the Met's ceiling of $1,000 per performance. Instead she accepted a reported $2,000 from Chicago's fledgling Lyric Theater company (TIME, Nov. 15, 1954). Said she at the time: "Who is the Met, my father or something? The Met can't afford me? I'm sorry, the Met will have to do without...
...personality on the songs he sings. Nonetheless, it is sometimes disturbing to watch the curious expressions on the faces of even these popular singers as they grope for the right note and also try to arrange their features to" fit the varying emotions of a foolish lyric...
...Stravinsky's rhythmically complex and dramatic score, but exciting singing from the European list group counteracted the lack of an orchestra. I Carter Brown '56 was an excellent narrator and Robert L. Loud '56 sang the part of a messenger lustily. Donald Parsons 1G had too light and lyric a tenor voice for the extremely difficult role of Oedipus...
...Author Mann developed, the problem took many forms-the artist v. the bourgeois, the criminal v. society, Nietzsche v. Goethe, disease v. conformity, Asia v. Europe, music v. reason. On one occasion, Mann was able to wed his antitheses into a higher reality. The moment came in the lyric, mysterious "snow scene" in The Magic Mountain, in which substance and accidents, skies and devils dissolve in the "white darkness" of the snow. It was one of the really astounding moments in modern literature, but it passed, and Mann was caught once again in the tension of opposites...
Henry's jigger is his beautiful wife Katy. To John Rivers, a slightly priggish minister's son and a sexual teetotaler at 28, Katy is a lyric goddess, distant and holy as Dante's Beatrice. When a siege of illness puts Henry in an oxygen tent, John's Platonic devotion is rudely shattered. A shivering, sleepless Kate finds her way to his bed one night and stays there...