Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barge is sung with power and intensity by Baritone Tito Gobbi, Soprano Margaret Mas and Tenor Giacinto Prandelli, strongly backed by the Rome Opera's chorus and orchestra under Veteran Conductor Vincenzo Bellezza. As the betrayed husband, Gobbi magnificently defines-in a voice alternately liquid with longing and rough-edged with rage-the climate of mind that drives him to murder...
Prognosis: the school bill should have easy sailing through Congress if the leadership can fend off civil-rights amendments; the immigration law faces rough going, may be defeated...
...rest of the picture is a fairly candid camera record of how Schweitzer today, half a century after he made the central decision of his life, is still paying humanity's claim. His hospital at Lambaréné, two days up the Ogowe River, is a rough compound of iron-roofed wooden shacks in a jungle clearing. Schweitzer and his small staff-three doctors, nine nurses -work with comparatively crude instruments (complicated medical gadgets invariably break down in the jungle climate). They have modern drugs, but they do not despise the native alexins. Says Schweitzer: "I have...
...role. His lion head, swept with a sensuously flowing mane of black hair that in recent years has been greying at the temples, makes him seem a big man, even though he is stocky and only 5 ft. 8½ in. tall. The jaw is powerful, the skin rough and swart, the profile jutting and rudely masculine, the lips sensitively curved and humorous. At a glance from Bernstein, men recognize an extraordinary personality, and women acquire the expression of poleaxed sheep; he exudes sex appeal like a leaky electric eel. He chooses his clothes with care ? the Italian shoe...
With that, the House served notice that the Federal Reserve Board and its tight-money policy will probably find rough going in the 85th Congress, since Texan Patman is one of Capitol Hill's most outspoken critics of FRB's credit-pinching policies. In the Senate, the Administration can look for little help. A resolution by Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, authorizing a non-partisan presidential commission, is sleeping quietly in the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, has little chance of being reported out before the end of February, if then...