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Neither selfless love nor old-fashioned romantic love gets much of a chance in these stories. Their themes can be banal, as in He, which has a pathetic and overworked English shrew driving her husband into the arms of another woman but wanting him back at any cost. Sometimes the habit becomes just plain infidelity, as in Getting Off the Altitude. In A Mild Attack of Locusts, the habit turns into love of the land, even when the African locusts make the land a crushing burden. A female leftist in The Day Stalin Died has the party habit...
...from more than 200 submitted works. Among the composers represented were such veterans as Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Leonard Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti), Gian Carlo Menotti (The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief), plus such lesser-known names as Vittorio Giannini (The Taming of the Shrew) and Mark Bucci (Tale for a Deaf...
...fishwife. Front pages ever since have attested to her tantrum power, and there have been moments when the sounds of her critics almost obscured the sound of her voice. But last week, in her first Metropolitan Opera appearance of the season, Callas the singer soared above Callas the shrew, and sang Traviata with an impassioned poignancy unmatched in years. See Music, Diva's Return...
...everything is wrong with the show. To its great credit, it presents Thelma Ritter, who plays what Time magazine would call "the great and good friend" of the barge skipper. A comedienne of absolutely the first caliber, she has brought to its ultimate perfection the characterization of the lovable shrew. Though some of her material might be funnier, her acting could scarcely be better...
Laid in 1910, The Waltz of the Toreadors tells of a retired French general chained, for all his infidelities, to the sickbed of a not-really-sick jealous shrew of a wife. He is equally chained to his high-romantic memories of a young girl he waltzed with at a ball 17 years before and who now suddenly appears on the scene. Anouilh's General St. Pe, a Don Quixote when he is not a Don Juan, needs-as he grows older-stronger and stronger rose-colored glasses, and is all the more romantic...