Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solar Plexus. Soprano Callas had just sung Leonora in Verdi's // Trovatore and once more affirmed her position as the world's most exciting opera singer. With the exception of one high note in her last big aria that degenerated into a sickly wobble, the whole performance gave off an incomparable glow. Perhaps the glow was brighter than ever, for Soprano Callas had just signed a contract as leading soprano next fall with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Il Trovatore's first notes, when she stood in slender profile in her crimson robe and sang...
...song, a new thought crosses her mind. She listens with a special intentness while others sing to her-although it is a question whether the pain that sometimes touches her brow is called for by the plot or caused by a fellow singer's strained note...
...dominated by a handsome singer who manages to put the imprint of his own personality on the songs he sings. Nonetheless, it is sometimes disturbing to watch the curious expressions on the faces of even these popular singers as they grope for the right note and also try to arrange their features to" fit the varying emotions of a foolish lyric...
...Bermuda Tourist Association, sponsor of Rugby Week, has instituted a new policy this year by sending the invitations to the athletic associations of the colleges concerned, instead of straight to the rugby clubs. A cover note requests that "a representative be appointed by your association to accompany the team and be responsible for it while in Bermuda...
...Note Dostoevsky's helplessness when confronted with love," said Freud. "He understands either coarse animal desire or masochistic submission, or else love out of pity." In his readable, reasonable, slice-of-love-life study of the great Russian novelist, Author Slonim, Russian-born teacher and critic, documents this Freudian analysis in detail. Avoiding sweeping generalizations, Slonim suggests that some of the grit in the oyster of Dostoevsky's genius was put there by women...