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Part of the Bayreuth revolution was the use of top singers who had not come up through the German chain of promotion (from provincial opera houses to major cities to Bayreuth). Chilean Tenor Ramon Vinay, familiar at the Metropolitan Opera but a stranger to Germany, looked handsome and heroic and sang brilliantly as Tristan. German Soprano Martha Moedl, 37, had begun to sing only eight years ago, but was a warm, natural Isolde. The Brangaene was a Ukrainian contralto named Era Malaniuk. Whatever the critics thought of the sets. they seemed to agree that the new Tristan was a fine...
...civil-rights subcommittee with an intelligent, calm hand, asked witnesses piercing questions which showed that her political experience extended far beyond the chicken-patty circuit of most women politicians. The daughter of a California lobbyist for public-school teachers and the wife of a lawyer, she was no stranger to proceedings of this kind. Said she: "I was two years old the first time I went on the floor of the legislature at Sacramento...
...Delegate could feel not only the prodding thumbs of rival politicians on his back: he could feel something far stranger, more novel and disconcerting. He could feel, literally, the eye of the nation upon...
...stranger to the U.S., Araki served in both the '20s and '30s in New York as an official of the Bank of Japan. In 1945 he became a vice-governor of the bank, a fact which put him on MacArthur's purge list. He was depurged in 1950. Araki tried to turn down the Washington appointment on the ground that he was not a diplomat, but Premier Yoshida insisted that Araki's financial experience was required in the main business of the embassy: straightening out Japan's debt to the U.S. and arranging for loans...
...made regular trips on the highways of water between Pittsburgh and Fort Benton, Mont. But he knows that diesels are here to stay, and doesn't let his nostalgia get teary-eyed. Nor does he equate the ' Monongahela and the Coal Queen with romance. But when a stranger looked at the Queen and asked, "Ain't it a miracle what some fools will do to earn a living? Can you imagine living on a thing like that?", Bissell answered, "I can imagine...