Word: mimi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traveled to Parma from Reggio to see Aida, only to hate it both times, with the proviso that he never again attend a Verdi premiere? Or that Sir Thomas Beecham once advised a tenor to sing the last scene of La Boheme on the bed next to the dying Mimi? "In that position, my dear fellow," said the redoubtable baronet, "I have performed some of my greatest achievements." And who can top the advice Richard Tucker once gave Franco Corelli, when the golden-calved Italian tenor asked the American for the secret of his way with Puccini? "To sing...
Vialet, along with Mimi Winsberg '86, also directs the Harvard Outdoor Program, a Saturday program that takes kids from the inner city outdoors. Past programs have included biking at a state park, going on a ropes course, ice-skating, and climbing Mount Monadnock...
...Alan King and Mimi Sheraton...
...recollection, a family saga about a rich matriarch and her four temperamental children. The Dorns have left Europe (perhaps Germany in the early '30s) to establish a manufacturing business in London. They prosper, even though the elder Dorn dies prematurely and leaves Wife Sofka to turn Alfred, Frederick, Mimi and Betty into proper gentlemen and ladies. But there is only so much a mother can do. Alfred is a somber bibliophile destined to run the business and refute the opening line of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ("It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession...
...Nicholas Nickleby, then he can soldier on, comforted by the thought that his efforts and his determination and all his good behaviour will be crowned with success, recognition, apotheosis." Frederick: he "has always worn his misdemeanours on his sleeve. It has served to make him unassailable." Mimi: "It is in order to avoid heartbreak that Mimi wills herself into accepting everything at face value." Betty: "The one thing (she) has never been able to recapture is that sense of effortless superiority that she possessed at the age of 16. Where once she had only to display herself against the dreamy...