Word: patriot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conley was cast in the difficult role of the Sicilian patriot Arrigo, and at first his small but silvery tenor seemed hemmed in by the sumptuous sounds of Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (also U.S.-born) and the rumbling bass of Bulgarian Boris Christoff. But by the second act his voice had warmed up, and so had the elegant and traditionally indifferent first-night audience. When the final curtain came down on the blood-bathed stage, Milanese were shouting "Conelay, Conelay" from their carnation-decked boxes...
...Esteemed Reichsführer." A far shriller and more demanding voice in Germany today is that of Adenauer's arch political enemy, Socialist Kurt Schumacher, 56. It is not the voice of cooperation, but the high-strung voice of a nationalist, a patriot gone zealot. Schumacher is a frail, cadaverous man of unexpected vigor. He gave his right arm to the Fatherland on the Russian front in World War I, lost his left leg following his ten years in Nazi concentration camps. In the Bundestag, where he holds great sway, he is a frightening performer. He jabs at every...
...series of columns reprinted from Harpers. Bernard DeVoto discusses America's noblest institution. The Cocktail Hour, and the patriot's responsibility...
...Syracuse Herald-Journal, Post-Standard, Long Island Press, Star-Journal, Newark Star-Ledger, Staten Island Advance, Harrisburg News, Patriot, Portland Oregonian, Jersey Journal...
...yearns for the stage before Producer Jessel lets her go on; then he takes her on a tour that dawdles like an actor poring over his scrapbook. Her suitor follows on horseback. First she thinks he is a gambler, then a bandit, before he emerges proudly as a Southern patriot...