Word: roles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title role, Tenor Sénéchal, in green tufted wig and high-heeled green shoes, made his way down the aisle to a spattering of applause. (For reasons best known to the French, the foolish old nymph in Platée was written for a tenor.) As Sénéchal launched into the music, he quickly demonstrated why he is one of France's most courted lyric tenors. The smooth, light-textured voice moved with ease from falsetto to full voice, changing shading and color as it kept pace with Tenor...
...Tenor Sénéchal, who will tour the U.S. after his private debut, is so much in demand that opera or concerts keep him busy five nights a week. Platée, he confessed last week over a post-performance glass of warm milk, is his favorite role, and the Varieties one of his favorite theaters. Unlike Fanny Kemble, he was delighted to be rubbing elbows with his audience. "One can whisper," said he, "just in their ears...
...flesh, but restraints on the human spirit cannot be measured in terms of iron bars and canvas straps alone. They derive much more importantly from the attitudes of people around the patient. For too long, as Maxwell Jones puts it, we worked on the unconscious belief that 'the role of the patient is to be sick.' If he senses that we expect him to be suicidal, or try to get away, or to be violent, he will oblige us. The open door is a symbol of our new-found belief that we expect patients to get better...
...President's regard for big business. Yet Author Leech shows McKinley as his own man. If he rooted for the trusts, it was because he believed that business and U.S. destiny were on the same path. If he took the U.S. into war and a great-power role, it was because he knew that the hour had struck for isolationism...
...subject matter of economics is the productive system, with all its relations to the world of technology. The concern of economics, however, is this system's role in society and its effect on men, their livelihood, and their institutions. Not an integrator of the two cultures, nevertheless it must span the separation...