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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his big voice he had the elusive personal magnetism and the dignity that grand opera demands. For a whole generation of operagoers, Pinza's Don Giovanni-in richly decorated doublet and single gold earring-was the virile embodiment of everything the role implied. Although Pinza could barely read music, he had a prodigious musical memory and a bone-deep sense of musical taste. He labored over makeup and stage business-he once spent hours hurling himself to the floor of the Met's stage to learn how Boris Godunov should die. At a few hours' notice...
...Your tax dollars have helped Norway and Denmark to reduce their internal debt while ours was mounting," Chicagoans read last week. "We have financed a six-lane highway in Portugal, numerous uncompleted projects in Iran and are now providing free airplane excursions for thousands of Arabs visiting Mecca. The record is filled with innumerable instances of 'foreign aid' so dubious and downright silly as to be almost beyond belief. It includes dress suits for Grecian undertakers, public baths for Egyptian camel drivers and even iceboxes for Eskimos...
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What, asks the Century rhetorically, is wrong with Billy? "Here is something hugely religious, and everybody is religious like everybody else, so why not go to the Garden? They all read Norman Vincent Peale and they all watch Bishop Sheen and they all go to the big Easter showing of The Ten Commandments, so why not go to the Garden...
...more closely with the Prime Minister than anyone else, and much of the book is designed to make it plain that, without Alan Brooke, Winnie would certainly have gone off the rails with catastrophic frequency. Most of Bryant's story will be old hat to those who have read Churchill's history. Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe and Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins. What gives it immediacy and historical stature is the day-by-day evidence of the reticent professional soldier who made his plan, stuck to it throughout and often persuaded seemingly stronger...