Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his Savile Row suits and ingratiating manner, spare, handsome William John Christopher Vassall liked to move about Britain's nicer resorts, impressing elderly ladies and retired colonels as an outwardly gay blade who was really some sort of secret agent. Trouble was, nobody realized just how gay he was-or, for that matter, how secret. Last week Vassall, 38. was convicted in London's Old Bailey of passing British Admiralty secrets to the Russians for six years, rather than risk exposure as a homosexual...
...Power to Spare. The real standouts, however, were Tenor Sandor Konya as Walther and Baritone Otto Wiener, who was making his Met debut in the role of Sachs. Hungarian-born Tenor Konya displayed a voice that had warmth, agility and power to spare; in his last act Prize Song he came as close as any man can to stopping a Wagnerian opera in its tracks. Baritone Wiener did not have a voice of flogging power, but he dominated the stage by sheer dramatic invention; he made Sachs a completely human figure...
Undoubtedly the best game of the day with an Ivy team takes place in Hanover, where Holy Cross checks in. The Crusaders, as we all learned last Saturday, are a first class outfit. Dartmouth, as Brown discovered, has strength to spare...
...collection ranges from pages out of ancient albums to calligraphic couplets, from spectacular wall scrolls to hand scrolls that were meant to be seen only a few inches at a time. There are scenes of jolly drunkenness and of men contemplating a waterfall, paintings ranging from lofty landscapes to spare sprays of bamboo, the nearest thing in nature to calligraphy. One 22-ft. hand scroll showing a series of great palaces is a work of art so intricate that it seems like a series of fantasies by some Oriental Piranesi. Yet recent excavations in Red China have shown that...
...message: the working class is the irking class in Britain. The message, never flatly delivered, is ironically implied in the plot, which involves a matter of wife and death. The hero, a hearty young draftsman named Vic (Alan Bates), works in a big mill in Lancashire and spends his spare time "chattin' up the typies.'' One day he chats up a little bit of all right (June Ritchie) who is just as twee as she can be on five quid a week, and so blonde he doesn't notice that she's dumb-like...