Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notorious production of Lohengrin, Vienna's late, famed Tenor Leo Slezak missed his entrance cue (so the story goes), and the swan appeared onstage alone, drawing an empty skiff. During the ensuing flap, Tenor Slezak's voice was clearly heard from the wings, in the manner of an annoyed traveler addressing the stationmaster: "When does the next swan leave...
Partly because the market for good jazz singers-i.e., singers who phrase and improvise in the manner of instruments in a jazz band-is remarkably small, Ernestine has remained a critical success and a popular failure. She is inevitably compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday. Ernestine invariably rejects the comparisons. "I wish," she says, "they would let me be just me." She is, and "just me" is plenty good enough...
...give the impression that, if the sample were to my taste, I would order Cake Box Mixture in bulk." Epicure Lucius Beebe ('27) shunned cigarettes, which caused users to emerge from Leavitt & Peirce "shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal and leering at passing virgins in an abandoned manner." He favored "Java rat-tail cigars, a contriving of Pain's fireworks dimensions which burned with a clear blue flame like a fuse and possessed an aroma comparable to that of Cambridgeport city dump...
Anyone watching a geyser, hot spring or fumarole (volcanic steam jet) in the U.S. West may well wonder why the earth's hot interior is not used as a source of energy, in the manner of volcanic steam power plants in central Italy. Last week Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of California announced that it has struck a deal to make electricity out of underground steam produced jointly by Magma Power Co. of Los Angeles and Thermal Power Co. of San Francisco...
Seaton wants the industry to operate in much the same manner as during Suez, but on a wider scale. Instead of concerning itself chiefly with alternate transportation for oil that normally passed through the canal, the new Middle East emergency committee will stress production as well. All the major overseas operators will be members, plus several wholly domestic companies, which were excluded from the Suez committee. For better coordination the plan provides a fulltime government employee (probably Oil Import Administrator Matthew Y. Carson Jr.) as chairman-rather than an industry representative, as during Suez. With details already worked out, Seaton...