Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose impeccable conducting technique provides control and discipline, and whose sense of balance allows the clarity imperative for a good performance. But Mr. Poto does not go any further. Technique is substituted for feeling, clarity for delineation and emphasis. Throughout, the absence of a shaped phrase, a smooth flow of line, or a large conception is painfully evident...
...Smooth Flight...
...debut, Soprano Little radiated much of the cool assurance-but not all the stagewise technique-of a veteran. The voice she displayed was not yet a big one, but it had a smooth, satiny quality ideally suited to the menacing, feline tension of her carefully calculated movements. Her opening-night performance was received with warm applause and scattered smart-aleck brays of "Little, go home!" By the second performance, she had her audience cheering after both her big first-act arias. Concluded one influential critic: "The debut came perhaps a bit too early, but it might well be the beginning...
...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 and wooden where he should have been dignified, faintly sentimental where he should have been compassionate...
...pork-on-the-hoof. Packers have shown hog-raisers how to take a unit of 33 breed sows, breed eleven of them every two months and over a year deliver 500 hogs to market in six marketings as opposed to the old rate of two per year. Thus, they smooth out seasonal peaks, and avoid gluts that have caused the Government to step in from time to time and buy up pork...