Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRANCO CORELLI: GRANADA AND OTHER ROMANTIC SONGS (Capitol). Corelli uses his miraculous equipment unstintingly. He never underestimates the power of a note, especially a high C that he can hold until even his listeners feel short of oxygen. His powerful dark tenor nearly steamrollers the modest little songs on this disk; few of them justify the fervor with which he belts them...
KAREN HALTTUNEN Short Hills...
There were attempts to provide at least a smattering of learning. The Daily News published hints on how parents could teach their children at home ("Have your young Charles Dickens write a short story"). The Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney offered art classes to any student who showed up at the door. With...
...turned cool and often hostile. Jeers greeted his name at synagogues; "hate mail" came into his office. City Hall became a fortress against an angry city, and Lindsay spent more and more time at Gracie Mansion, the city's elegant mayoral residence overlooking the East River. Only a short time ago, it had looked as if Lindsay could charm the whole city, which is about as charmproof as any in the world; now the whole community seemed to have turned against him. Says one City Hall acquaintance: "The birds have started circling around, as they watch the animal falter...
...Bohlen made no secret of his sense of futility in dealing with the Elysee and the Quai d'Orsay. Undaunted, Shriver has brought to his new job the same inventiveness and dash with which he led the Peace Corps and the U.S. war on poverty; in a few short months, he has given U.S. diplomacy a rare and welcome panache...