Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni is a bit of a bore, and audiences can understand why the Don is trying to get away from her. She sings matchlessly beautiful music, but the range of her emotions is narrow: fury at her seducer, with some tenderness for her fiance. Singing the part for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera last week. Soprano Leontyne Price brought to Anna a vitality that she rarely had before, gave as fine a reading of the role as present-day operagoers are likely to hear and see. As in her previous appearances...
...Dharma Bums. The big flirtation between the beatniks and Zen and other forms of Eastern passivism, as Fitch sees it, is a desire to be emptied of self. But it is the self-pitier who truly commands stage center in modern drama, fiction and even life. In a narrow and somewhat unfairly argued attack on Pasternak, Fitch claims that Doctor Zhivago is a kind of beat modern Hamlet who "is born in pathos, lives in pathos, peters out in pathos-the artist-anarchist who can never be at home in any system of public responsibility, communist or capitalist...
...with talented people whose only god is their narrow talent. And he even makes the devil seem a doubtful presence. But only once does he manage to sound like Remain Gary: "An idealist is a son-of-a-bitch who thinks that the earth is not a good enough place for him." THE MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI...
Chin-ups & Blivits. Like all other SAC operations, the airborne alert routine is fenced by narrow restrictions and standardized procedures. Briefing is held a week prior to scheduled takeoff. On take-off day, other crews run through the three-hour preflight checks on the alert bomber to lessen the fatigue of the crew going on duty. Take-offs are scheduled for around 10 a.m. to allow for a full night's sleep. (The crewmen's physical condition is attested by the fact that they must be able to run a reasonably fast 250-yd. dash and perform five...
...unfinished business," said Mr. K., buttoning all three buttons on his narrow-lapelled suit and looking around for his toupee. "I thought I would give your magazine the opportunity to have my wife's picture on the cover again. And I wouldn't object too much if you took a few shots of me." His tanned face smiled modestly while I focused my camera...