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...troubled conscience. Going off on tangents, staging diversionary incidents, piling on self-indulgent rhetoric: all these would have been enough to spoil the play. But Arden has a much more drastic flaw. He tries to practice consensus drama, a contradiction in terms. For Serjeant Musgrave's Dance to possess any intrinsic vitality, there would have to be a respectable body of thought holding that war is heavenly. As it is, Arden is merely preaching sermons to the converted, and universal agreement is the most potent sleeping powder in the theater...
...cited the recent crash of an American B-52 bomber a Spain as an example of the danger that foreign military bases pose to countries that do not even possess nuclear weapons. The accident resulted in the scattering of radioactive particles from two bombs in part of the Spanish countryside...
Taking the Plunge. Thomas has not yet graduated into the ranks of the full-fledged heldentenor. Basically, this requires a voice with the coloring of a baritone and the range of a tenor. Unlike the bel canto tenor who must employ vocal embroidery, the heldentenor must possess the raw power and endurance to sing the weightiest and longest roles in opera. The supreme tests are Wagner's Tristan and Siegfried, which require 65 and 90 minutes respectively, as compared, say, with the 22 minutes for Tosca. Lauritz Melchior, the last great heldentenor, did not attempt Tristan until...
...another change in worship that could help bring divided Christianity closer together. They proposed that their churches draw up a common table of Bible lessons, which would be read by all churches on Sundays. With that, they declared, "we should surely be hastening the day when once again we possess 'one mind in Jesus Christ...
...carriages and told each other "what a pretty thing it was to see a lovely woman drive in London behind a well-matched pair," and nobody wanted "to think about making money, only about spending it." In office at Westminster was "the last government in the Western world to possess all the attributes of aristocracy in working condition." Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, was dedicated to the principle that a nation should be ruled by its "natural" leaders -those with fortune and position so secure "that the struggles for ambition are not defiled by the taint...