Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pollyanna plays the game with such a monstrous power of positive thinking that after two hours and 14 minutes under that relentless little ray of sunshine, the whole town she lives in is dissolved into a mile-wide meringue of mawkishness. At a big charity bazaar, they all sing America the Beautiful, and later somebody bursts out sobbing: "Just think! If she had never come to this town! We ought to get down on our knees and thank God for sending...
...more demonstration that she now stands in the front rank of contraltos-although it is only nine years since she walked fresh from a church choir to the studio of her teacher, Dutch Lieder Singer Bernard Diamant, who told her, "You don't know how to sing." Having worked hard with Diamant, she gol her big break in 1957 when Walter hired her for one of the solo parts in Mahler's Second Symphony with the Philharmonic Although she sings some contemporary works, she prefers the songs of Hugo Wolf excerpts from Wagner, Mahler. Said she before going...
...that tobaccomen can no longer sing, shout or advertise their superior claims to health protection, they are busy researching novelty in flavors, e.g., chocolate and peppermint. They are also using their cash reserves from high profits to diversify. Reynolds has already bought an aluminum-foil plant, Archer Aluminum, and Bowman Gray is looking for other companies to buy into, particularly in the consumer field. "We'd go into almost anything," he says, "except the mule trade." The industry looks to the future with confidence, not because it expects to be spared more crises?the next one could be definite proof...
...young tenor appearing as Radames in Verdi's A'ida had sung "magnificently," said the Manchester Guardian; his voice had "sweetness, heroic size and natural musicality." That review, and others like it, gave the tenor pause: "I decided I had better go somewhere and learn to sing...
...Mezzo Lane has made something of a specialty of dying gracefully. The daughter of an immigrant Russian harnessmaker, she heard her first music in a Trenton synagogue where her father was baritone cantor. Gussie Seit became Gloria Lane in her teens, after she won a Y.M.H.A. amateur contest singing Let Yourself Go. She abandoned a $40-a-week secretarial job to win the role of the secretary in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul, later sang the role of Desideria in Menotti's Saint oj Bleecker Street, a part that, like Carmen, required...