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...magic show of scientific experiments, a dogged organizer and tireless fund raiser, a man of radiant energy and corrosive doubts. This is the sort of character who might be considered larger than life, if his life had not been lived on a stage that dwarfed his best efforts and noblest beliefs. China, as Hersey portrays it, is the sleeping giant about to awake, and it is ravenous for a dignity that cannot be satisfied by outsiders with their wholehearted urgency. Still, this is the quality that Hersey rightly celebrates. "I have been wrestling with the desperate realization that there...
...Gordon (Patrick Wilcox), she acts like a jealous lover. And to her devoted friend Charlie (Edward Petherbridge), she finally plays the agreeable wife. A reverberant premise; the problem is in O'Neill's pulp-opera plot, especially the revelation of a hereditary curse that propels Nina into the noblest abortion and adultery on record. That earns a titter...
...never attended section, and never so much as skimmed through any of the 14 required textbooks. On the day of the final, he walked into the exam room, realized that the ensuing three hours were bound to be little more than a wretched farce, and decided to adopt the noblest course of action he could...
Birgit Nilsson knew at 63 that her time had come; in 1982 the noblest of modern Brunnhildes put away her breastplate and shield, assured of a permanent place in every Wagnerian's vocal Valhalla. Beverly Sills, the ebullient American queen of bel canto, tossed off her last Donizettian roulade in 1980. Last week another of that generation's dominant divas appeared on an opera stage for the last time: Leontyne Price ended a glittering 32-year career with a vocally stunning performance of Verdi's Aida at New York City's Metropolitan Opera that proved she can still capture...
...first foreign democratic leader, dispossessed or excluded from power and politics at home, who was welcomed and supported at Harvard. As somebody who enjoyed the privilege of Beaigno's friendship may i pay tribute to Harvard when harvard honors the late Filipino patriot. This was in the noblest tradition of American democracy and of academic freedom in its universities. Benigno recognized that the Veritas of John Harvard was not just a commitment to the expanding horizons of knowledge but to upholding the torch and democracy round the world. Benigno Acqaino's years at Harvard will I hope, be looked upon...