Word: roald
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Though knighted and lionized at 35 for his 1909 journey to Antarctica, Shackleton in 1914 was frantic because the great goals were disappearing. The North Pole had fallen to U.S. Explorer Robert E. Peary in 1909, the South Pole to Norway's Roald Amundsen in 1911. Shackleton conceived a scheme of sailing to the Atlantic coast of Antarctica and sledging across the continent via the Pole to the Pacific. He called it "the largest and most striking of all journeys." The Royal Geographical Society was cool to the idea-as well it might be. The feat was not achieved...
...audience and contestants stepped up to Sherry's Bar for a breather, Bing retired to his office with the other judges, half an hour later came out with the names of the winners. The Met decided to award two contracts-to Tacoma's 30-year-old Baritone Roald Reitan and 20-year-old, Toronto-born Soprano Teresa Stratas. Baritone Reitan, who was turned down by a Met scout four years ago when he auditioned on his wedding day, took the news fairly calmly, but tiny (5 ft.) Soprano Stratas, a senior at the University of Toronto, promptly burst...
...opera scores, as last week's Jackson performances demonstrated, are tautly constructed, neatly professional jobs, full of garish dramatic effects. The Soldier, based on a story by Roald Dahl, is a moody study of a World War II veteran who returns home psychologically scarred, suspects his wife of trying to drive him insane, and eventually winds up in a mental institution. To this curdled tale Composer Engel fitted a score shot through with warm lyrical flights that died suddenly in derisively dissonant evocations of the chaos in the soldier's mind. Engel's fellow Jacksonians responded enthusiastically...
...occasional tendency to overact from sheer youthful exuberance (Painter Marcello, in Act I, hurled his brush clear offstage into the orchestra pit). But audience and critics were impressed by the Americans' voices and technique. The best voice in the group, many thought, belonged to Tacoma (Wash.) Baritone Roald Reitan, who sang briefly last year with the San Francisco Opera. Ohio-born Tenor Jean Deis, who was told when he was nine that scarlet fever would prevent him from ever speaking again, also got a generous round as Rodolfo. The most popular Americans were Texas Soprano Sara Rhodes Hageman...
...change is an "outgrowth of requests" made by the Brown student council, and comes as a result of a new administration feeling that "juniors and seniors are handling themselves well in their studies," K. Roald Bergethon, Dean of the College, said...