Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that afternoon, the physician who usually treats him at Monte Carlo, Dr. David M. Roberts, thought it might be indigestion. Next morning it was clear that whatever ailed Churchill was more than indigestion. The old warrior abandoned his plans to meet Lady Churchill, arriving from London at the Nice airport, and took to his bed. An eddy of concern welled up on the world's front pages as Dr. Roberts telephoned Sir Winston's personal physician, Lord Moran, in London. Arriving by the next plane. Lord Moran, 75, headed straight for La Pausa, the sun-splashed Roquebrune villa...
...made her first musical splash four years ago as the replacement for Leontyne Price in Porgy and Bess. She toured in the role from San Francisco to Cairo, finally abandoned Bess to avoid being typed. She studied Aïda, sang the title role in the opera house at Nice but had never attempted it with a big-league company before her debut at the Metropolitan Opera last week. Soprano Davy was thrown in with a strong cast-Kurt Baum as Radames, Irene Dalis as Amneris. Leonard Warren as Amonasro-which might well have overpowered her. Tentative at first, Singer...
Tonight (José Melis, his piano and strings; Seeco). A collection of standards -Love Is a Simple Thing, Harbor Lights, One Morning in May-played by a 40-year-old Cuban supper-club pianist (and member of the Jack Paar TV show). Melis has a nice, unpretentious fancy and an attack as clean as a sea breeze. Particularly pleasant when he cuts loose from all those viscous strings...
...role. Gloria DePiero plays a comely Bride, but she is guilty of extreme overacting at times. And Olympia Dukakis shows some sign of talent as the servant woman who acts almost as a classical chorus. However her Brookline accent detracts from her performance. Edward Zang gives a nice and largely unaffected performance as the Bride's father...
...stage because of politics. I see now that I should have gone on with my work." To some, these words sounded like a contrite solo, but Robeson himself soon drowned them out with the bizarre protest that the capitalist press was maligning him as a nonCommunist. Rumbled Robeson: "These nice people are trying to make me as they want me-to save me from my better self. I have not changed my views in the slightest about anything!" His afterthought: "I must make a speech after I sing...