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...splendid as a resonant-voiced Germont. As Alfredo, Tenor Giuseppe Cam-pora had neither enough power nor presence to hold the stage, but to appear with Tebaldi in last week's production would not have been easy for any singer. The Met crowd was clearly there to render personal homage to Tebaldi, and at the end, there were 15 curtain calls, a shower of bouquets from the balcony-and some rousingly snarled traffic...
...wondering what he could do to ease the world's pain. At 30, he abandoned fame, plunged into medicine, determined to spend his life as a missionary doctor in French Equatorial Africa. "Man belongs to man," he wrote. "Man has claims on man . . . One who escapes misfortune should render thanks by doing something to relieve suffering...
...describe pragmatically the superiority of the American bathroom to the Gothic cathedral as a mental stimulus: "But the bathroom, too, shelters the spirit, it tranquillizes and reassures, in surroundings of a celestial Whiteness, where the pipes and the faucets gleam and the mirror makes another liquid surface, which will render you, shaved, rubbed and brushed, a nobler and more winning appearance... It encourages self-dependence and prepares one to face the world, fortified, firm on one's feet, serene and with a mind like a diamond." There are two possible reactions of disgust to this sort of things in Wilson...
...threatened by thermonuclear weapons, any action by the free nations must be carefully thought out, and the advantages it implies weighed against the possibility of precipitating a Third World War, a war that would be so horrible as to render trifling by comparison the Russians' brutal treatment of the Hungarian patriots. With a deep sense of regret it must be conceded that a morally demanded defense of embattled Hungary is not worth a Third World War and its havoc to man kind...
...drowned the silence, and the airplane swooped roughly. The passengers bolted awake. "Ladies and gentlemen," crackled the cabin loudspeaker, "this is Captain Ogg. We have an emergency. Our No.1 engine is uncontrolled. A ditching at sea is likely. We have a Coast Guard cutter nearby that is able to render assistance. There is no cause for alarm...