Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Operatic impresarios have attributed the drop in Wagner's popularity to the absence of full-blast singers, but Von Karajan's achievement suggests a happy solution to the problem. His low-keyed approach encourages performers to sing Wagner without strain. And why not? After all, he says, "what is forte? There is no absolute value. We try to make music-drama, not opera...
...Julie Andrews, 32, filed suit in Santa Monica, Calif., for divorce from English Stage Designer Tony Walton, 33, her husband since 1959. In a formal statement more notable for brevity than syntax, Julie explained that "the varying demands of our careers have kept Tony and I apart, placing obvious strains upon our marriage." Another obvious strain, Director (The Pink Panther) Blake Edwards, 45, has recently acquired his own divorce, and will presumably be at hand when Julie's decree becomes final in a year...
This was the way Vietnam began, and Che argues that 'Two, Three, Many Vietnams" all over Latin America would place an unacceptable strain on U.S. resources and determination...
...strain of his double career forced him to quit the Met. On the prospects for contemporary composers these days, he is unfashionably optimistic. "We have a larger, more promising and better-educated group of composers in this country than we have ever had," he says. "They are being heard more than they were 20 years ago." Financially, a composer with talent "could expect to be doing pretty well by the time he is 45 or 50." Clearly, in more ways than one, Schuller is doing pretty well...
...prove unbearable, but Luke plays it cool. Eventually, he wins over his most hostile fellow inmates by refusing to knuckle under to the sadistic guards. One day he receives a telegram that his mother has died. She is his last tenuous touch with the outside world, and under the strain, he finally cracks. Sitting on his bunk, Luke, an avowed village atheist, brokenly sings a parody of an oldtimey hymn: "I don't care if it rains or freezes/long as I got my plastic Jesus/sitting on the dashboard...