Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHISPERERS. Dame Edith Evans, 79, playing a lonely, penurious old woman, creates new proof that there is no age limit on greatness...
...assuage critics' fears that it was more concerned with repressing slum violence than averting it. The committee called on Leonard Kowalewski, a Newark turnkey who hinted of a conspiracy behind the Newark riots and charged that federal anti-poverty workers helped to bring about the trouble. Nothing like proof was offered...
Leinsdorf does not think the original Fidelio will find a place in regular operatic productions, but he sees it as a strong, if difficult, addition to the concert and festival repertory. "It represents the composer at his hottest," he says-and by way of proof, Leinsdorf had to change his sweat-soaked jacket at intermission. "In it, like the genius he was, Beethoven was asking for things ahead of his time which probably could not be done." As Leinsdorf, the orchestra and the singers-particularly Soprano Hanne-Lore Kuhse and Tenor George Shirley-showed at Tanglewood, they can be done...
...incident had been filmed by the Southern Independent Television Network and was broadcast on nationwide TV. It had been staged with the help of local police, who played the abductors. Said the program announcer: "Apathy toward crime is astounding." As further proof, ITV showed some other crimes staged before a public that did not want to get involved. In a jewel robbery, the "thieves" ran from the store with their loot in plain view, carrying an injured man whom they threw in the trunk of the getaway car. Again, no one made a move to interfere and no one noted...
Esquire made this disclosure in an umpteen-page section about what we hip college youths are up to, and even provided photographic proof...