Word: sulleness
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...Giovanni, Liu in Turandot. Her Leonora proved to be a remarkable portrayal of a woman in whom dignity struggled with desperation and in whom grief somehow shone more movingly through a profound sense of repose. The amalgam of qualities made her fourth act aria D'amor sull'ali rosee a dramatic as well as a technical triumph. It was perhaps the most wildly applauded moment of the present Met season-a season made somewhat lackluster by several dull, slack productions but rendered memorable by what seemed like a new age of brilliant singers, most notably Birgit Nilsson, triumphant...
...upper as the lower registers, and it negotiated the distance between them with liquid ease. It never strained. Her muted trills alone were enough to justify the Italian critic who was reminded of "a skylark under bewitchment." When she completed the Act IV aria, D'amor sull'ali rosee, she received the kind of ovation that at the Met signifies unconditional surrender...
...discovers a pantherish moonshiner named Aaron McCool who echoes the sentiments that Duncan feels: "They got a law for everything now-hunting, fishing, planting crops. Spew them out like buckshot. A man's got to learn how to duck, nowadays, and roll hisself in a ball and sull up like a possum...
...rebirth of the Insullated Chicago Civic Opera Company this week (see p. 18), Rosa Raisa and her husband, Giacomo Rimini, required cash advances for traveling expenses. Just before the opening Soprano Raisa told" the story of how she and her husband lost their entire fortune through Samuel In-sull's investment advice. The utility tycoon had sent a representative in 1926 to urge her to invest in Insull stocks. "I felt very honored that Mr. Insull should send his confidential man to me," she related. "Every one looked upon Mr. Insull as the god of American business...
More Power to Insull. Samuel In-sull's Middle West Utilities Co. controls National Electric Power Co. National controls New England Public Service Co., which, in turn, controls Cumberland County Power & Light Co. Last week, through a deal in which Cumberland figured, Utilities Insull became more potent in New England...