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...virtue of their small numbers. "We're a powerful minority," says 19-year-old Sue Colodny. The only girl in a class gets plenty of professorial attention. "Every activity on campus wants girls," gloats one of them, and a freshman reports that getting a date required only the merest smile. "It's wild," she says...
...merest fault darkens his day. Rehearsing with Joan Sutherland, he could notice nothing but the graceless clumber of La Stupendas feet. The curtain bothered him when the orchestra was at its best; the lights annoyed him when the set was perfect; poor acting upset him when the singing was glorious. With a board of directors that applauds him with rubber-stamp approval, an audience that regularly fills every seat, and a local gentry that promises in advance to make up the final deficit in his budget, San Francisco Opera Director Kurt Herbert Adler remains on the critical list...
...breakfast-table news about air disasters is achingly familiar. A plane was taking off-or perhaps landing. Some of the passengers, to be sure, were nervous; some always are, no matter how normal conditions may seem. Then, in the merest, most explosive instant of time, came death from flame and mangled metal...
...year literature course doesn't rely very heavily on lectures, except as a means to introduce new students to the practice of "reading in slow motion," as he calls his and his colleagues' approach. So that In Defense of Reading is only a collection of such introductory lectures, the merest fringe of the course...
...humor of In dem Schatten meiner Locken ("In the shadow of my tresses, my lover fell asleep"), where the phrase "Weck'ich ihn nun auf? Ach nein!" ("Shall I wake him? Ah no"), repeated three times, was first coy, then a bit reproachful, and finally just the merest sigh of content. The Wolf group was lengthened by two encores, which Miss Schwarzkopf announced and (bless her!) translated: an exultant Ich hab' in Penna (a catalogue of lovers: one each in Penna, Maremma, Ancona, Viterbo, Casentino, and Magione; four in La Fratta, "und zehn in Castiglione," and a magnicently dramatic performance...