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...knows her!" wrote Impressionist Camille Pissarro on the day in 1895 that he heard of the death of his good friend Berthe Morisot. Compared with the following of her great contemporaries, Berthe Morisot's public has always been modest but no history of the impressionist movement could now overlook her. The reason was clear last week at Manhattan's Wildenstem gallery, where 69 of her works hung in the largest Morisot exhibition ever held...
...quite some time now, liberals who supported Kennedy have been forced to overlook a series of disappointing maneuvers by sagaciously telling themselves that the young man from Massachusetts was making "the shrewd political moves...
...analysis of the cold war by Edwin L. Dale Jr. is a scholarly one, but it seems to overlook [Communism's] conscienceless will to use brute force in gaining what it seeks if everything else fails. The fact that "Europe is vigorous and thriving and fully with us" is hardly comforting in the light of Russia's ability to overrun it, in a matter of days, if she so chooses, at the same time delivering us a crippling blow to ward off any opposition. At any given moment, Russia has that physical and psychological edge...
...When you salute the three Stratfords for gaining "some of the fluidity of the Elizabethan theater," you overlook the fact that the Shakespearean Festival-in Ashland-insists that Elizabethan staging is necessary to achieve the full value of our stage. It is built on the known dimensions of the 1599 Fortune Theater of London. Because of it we can, and do, produce an uncut Hamlet (without interruption of any kind) in three hours...
Puritani takes place in Cromwell's England, where the Cavalier hero daringly dupes the Roundheads, but in the process is forced to abandon his betrothed, Elvira, who goes insane. Soprano Sutherland's triumph last week was that she made her audience overlook the opera's gothic absurdities and focus on its moments of real beauty, including Elvira's pre-wedding aria, "Son vergin vezzosa," and her splendid "Qui la voce sua soave," which introduces a mad scene every bit as effective as the more famous one in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Her voice...