Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Eva and Walther are not figures so mystical as Elsa and Lohenrin, they require both in melody and acting a flair that Jutta Meyfurth and Marion Alch possessed. Miss Meyfurth sang Eva with a strength of passion less suited to the part than simple delicacy; still, she handled her forcefulness well. Alch had a proper impetuousness and mastered the demanding range of this part, but the song with which he won Eva was marred by swallowed vowels and consonants. The directors must assume much of the blame, for they cut the second stanza of this crucial song...
Writing on the liberal counter-rally, Yalie Ronald Holden commented that "nothing particularly startling was said" in the "decadent"-looking St. Nicholas Arena. The audience for "this improvised passion play," Holden added, applauded enthusiastically for cries of "We want peace!" but only politely for "We want freedom...
...Beat of Passion. The fact is that Tennessee Williams, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and three New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, is a consummate master of theater. His plays beat with the heart's blood of the drama: passion. He is the greatest U.S. playwright since Eugene O'Neill, and barring the aged Sean O'Casey, the greatest living playwright anywhere. Dissenting voices might be raised for a thoughtful and clever shaper of ideas like Jean Anouilh. Yet the 20th century's three greatest playwrights as thinkers-Shaw, Brecht and Pirandello-succeeded less because...
...destruction in his work, and if he ever knew despair, he never showed it. Léger so reveled in form and color that it was as if he had lived in a world without a single shadow or a moment of gloom. Other men have painted with more passion, few with more exuberance...
...Bodine has come to Antibes and Juan-les-Pins to forget his wife, a philandering lady pianist. He is an American wanderer of European background, whose strongest characteristic is a persistent fretfulness and a concern for the color of clothes. What has maimed him, he thinks, is his frustrated passion for his bitch-wife, Liliane. But his strongest attachment is to a young, handsome male servant, an Algerian named Jeannot...