Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Feb. 11 story on Charles Van Doren and the Van Doren family is the most fascinating thing I've read in many a day. The private and public personality of Charles is tops. And so is your splendid article...
...richly ornamented outpouring of awakening emotion in the first act to the flexible, bitter-sweet lyricism of the last, Tebaldi superbly defined Violetta's stirrings and renunciation; moreover, she avoided flawing the role with more than the necessary touches of sentimentality and melodrama. Baritone Leonard Warren was splendid as a resonant-voiced Germont. As Alfredo, Tenor Giuseppe Cam-pora had neither enough power nor presence to hold the stage, but to appear with Tebaldi in last week's production would not have been easy for any singer. The Met crowd was clearly there to render personal homage...
Accolades for your splendid story [Jan. 21 ] on magnificent Macmillan. Mac is truly the ideal democratic aristocrat...
...peace we seek cannot be born of fear alone. There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples. There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak. Splendid as can be the blessings of such a peace, high will be its cost: in toil patiently sustained, in help honorably given, in sacrifice calmly borne...
...horrified reaction to it is brilliant, as is the convergence of enemies on stage around the final duel with MacDuff. The actors played well despite an audience that laughed at murder and sneezed at terror. The set, a few bold pillars of rock and occasional draperies, is combined with splendid lighting to provide a strong yet quickly flexible background for this generally first-rate production...