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...appreciative words seemed quite adequate to the task. But the New York Times's Critic' Olin Downes tried. Toscanini's radio performance of Otello, he wrote,'was "a performance literally unsurpassable, or indeed to be equaled in the hearing of this generation. . . . Mr. Toscanini achieved a reading of this great score which represented the summit of his own interpretive powers...
...sharp, and with a sickening, undulating vibrato. Tristan's frayed baying could only be heard when Isolde was swooning at half-voice. Minor characters lurched about the stage cataleptically. The orchestra got into the spirit of things by burbling and sputtering. Wrote the New York Times's Olin Downes: "One of the dullest performances of Tristan that we recall, with a new Isolde who is certainly, beyond doubt or peradventure, the worst impersonator of the title part in our considerable experience of the opera...
Commented South Carolina's Democratic Senator Olin D. Johnston: "Mr. Hoover's hindsight appears to be as bad as his foresight...
Conductor Bruno Walter picked her to sing Leonore in an English version of Fidelia in 1945. Wrote the New York Times's Senior Music Pundit Olin Downes: "[She] showed that she had the voice, the high intelligence and the dramatic sincerity required for Leonore's great role. . . . The voice is of a warm color and stamina and resourcefulness throughout its range...
...think you are going to hear from quite a few Wesleyan graduates on that subject, because Wilbur Olin ("Bobby") Atwater, Beach Professor of Chemistry at Wesleyan University, was using human subjects in his respiration calorimeter, in the basement of Judd Hall, several years before 1911. I know, because I was one of them. At midyear examination time of my junior year (i.e., February 1905), a number of us took our examinations in Bobby's box, with the idea of finding out whether brain work consumed any physical energy. As I recall it, they never proved that...