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...book Observations on the Florid Song, which was the basic handbook for opera singers during the 18th century. In those days singers freely ornamented composers' scores with their own improvised embellishments in a style known as bel canto (literally, "beautiful singing") To today's purists, who worshipfully preach note-for-note fidelity to the composer the style is strictly bellow canto. Nevertheless, performances in opera houses and on recordings are now being laced with so many variations on old arias that Tosi would sing...
...section "Voices of Revolution" is especially interesting because it brings the reader into the atmosphere of a political rally. Leaders from Venezuela, Mozambique, and Peru pound out the inexorable logic of their position, call for unity of classes, and preach nationalism. The spout neo-Marxian polemics--"We have nothing to lose but the chains that destroy our dignity;" and the revolutionary vocabulary of diatribe--"imperialism," "industrial reserve army," and "pauperization...
Murray will not conduct a Catholic service Sunday, Price noted. "I like to think of Mem Church as a place where a man can preach with no consciousness of the denominational tradition out of which he comes," he added...
...Apropos of Adam Clayton Powell, alias "Daniel" [Sept. 30]. Am I mistaken, or didn't ministers use to preach the Gospel from their pulpits on Sunday morning? Apparently Mr. Powell feels that the denunciation and abasement of his House Education and Labor Committee as "racists" is more important than God's word. MARK J. HARDCASTLE King of Prussia...
...husband, set herself up as a fashionable couturiere, and now longs for a "total commitment"-to a person, to a cause, to anything at all; Axel, a dazzling, dispassionate mystic of the absurd who has resigned his university lectureship to work in a hospital ward for thalidomide babies and preach a gospel of gratuitous, existential love, which Annerose finds appealing but scarcely persuasive; Octavio, a muscular young industrialist who believes in exactly nothing and who finally proposes to Annerose a commitment she finds compelling. "What else does beauty need," he asks, "but the chance to be destroyed?" What, indeed...