Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Straight from the Shoulder. The cheering audience called the three soloists, Conductor Colin Davis and Composer Britten back for repeated bows. Relaxing backstage with a leather-bound flask of cognac in hand, Composer Britten explained that he had not conducted the score himself because he was suffering from the mysterious psychogenic shoulder disorder that "happens to me only after I've finished a big work." And the Mass, he might have added, is one of the biggest works of his career. "It has been boiling up inside me for years," said Britten. "I had to find a language simple...
Further on in the communique we find that the football situation in Hanover in extremely grim. Coach Bob Blackman, who reported at the beginning of this season that he had practically no one worthy of wearing shoulder pads, apparently will face a similar dilemma next Fall. Every coach should have such problems...
...better if they are out of bed and walking as soon as possible after an operation. And despite the amazing recovery of former President Eisenhower after artery shutdowns in both heart and brain, Dr. Mead complains that doctors are still turning heart-attack victims into nervous wrecks and frozen-shoulder cripples by enforcing too much rest...
When the curtain came down last week on a new production of Carmen at the Marseille Opera House, the thunderous ovation was so moving that Don José laid his head on Carmen's shoulder and wept noisily. He had good reason. In the previous performance, part of the audience had greeted the tenor with something less than cheers; he had, in fact, been pelted with bunches of carrots, turnips and radishes. Even oldtime Marseille residents could not recall a more enthusiastic operatic riot...
...Rita Hayworth, Nancy Kelly), and with an unknown understudy played a one-night stand. Come on Strong, Garson Kanin's nonplay about how to succeed by really sleeping around, posted a closing notice, then rescinded it, and is apparently hanging on by comely Carroll Baker's sliding shoulder straps. Manhattan's Seventh Avenue has been pilfered, as it is a couple of times a season, for a spotty cloak-and-suit comedy called Seidman and Son that is full of decent sentiments and indecent sentimentality. A play it isn't, but thanks to Sam Levene, that...