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Agents for the big tour are New Directions, which, scant days ago, saw fit to publish Kenneth Patchen in the New Classics series (along with Conrad, Kafka, West and Stein), and Cadence Records, which celebrates this signal event with the release of an LP of Patchen reading his stuff to the Chamber Jazz Sextet, jouant. Despite the fact that much of the poetry in the book is lousy, the effect of the two-part package is invigorating...
...lost her voice during a performance of Norma. At the final curtain she took ten solo bows. The true measure of how totally Callas dominated last week's Traviata was the credibility she brought to the younger Dumas' tears-and-champagne tale of the consumptive courtesan-with scant help from a minor-league cast. As Alfredo, Tenor Daniele Barioni sang powerfully but uncertainly and sometimes off-key, acted in an emotional monotone that made his rages indistinguishable from his passions. In his U.S. debut, Italian Baritone Mario Zanasi displayed a smooth, ample voice but made his Germont pompous...
...just been sitting in a little Illinois town putting his thoughts on paper-like many other inept writers. Blame the present sad state of American letters in which publishers print manuscripts of such caliber; moving-picture companies buy them at a cost of millions. It is scant comfort to professional writers like myself-who beat our brains out, trying to peddle manuscripts of more or less reasonable value in a market without values-to know that Some Came Running from Here to Eternity...
...become a full member of the Baghdad Pact. He also wanted the U.S. to espouse a settlement for Palestine which would cut Israel back to its 1947 borders. Nuri hinted that if his demands were not met, Iraq's interest in staying in the pact would be scant indeed...
Early season predictions gave Harvard scant chance to win more than one game, but under Yovicsin's coaching, the Crimson won three of its first six games until injuries cut it down in its last two contests of the year. Yovicsin was "pleased, although naturally not completely pleased. We hoped to have a winning season," he says, "but we are very happy with the progress the boys made...