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...barrenness. Her father James, an erect, dignified, sparrow-thin man. now 79, worked in the local sawmills (Laurel used to call itself the Yellow Pine Capital of the World before the woods gave out). Kate Price, an iron-willed woman with some of Leontyne's own incendiary temper, took to midwifery to bolster the family income. Working at first for a fee of $10 per baby-or sometimes for a side of bacon or a barrel of peas-Kate delivered about 900 children over the years and never, she boasts proudly, lost a mother. But she created some problems...
Havin' a Ball. But Leontyne also has a fierce professional pride and a temper to match. Told not long ago that a male singer was unable to make a rehearsal, she raged: "I don't give a hoot about him or any other singer. He's lucky to be in this with me, dear. That jerk-he can't sing because he hasn't got any vocal technique, that's why!" After such an out burst she is likely to shrug her shoulders, smile and murmur, "I don't know...
Half the play is devoted to Grusha, and Grusha winds up as half a character. When Director John Hancock was analyzing her during the Loeb production, he charted fourteen "good" traits, which read like the Boy Scout Oath, and one fault (she lost he temper readily). Brecht's failure to elevate Grusha above generic goodness is particularly telling since he conceived the play in order to write a special part for Luisa Rainer, an expatriate German actress. His failure exemplifies the weakness invariably cited by the Communist critics: Brecht could create noble agitators and good proletarians, but never a flesh...
...among government contractors is a significant document. Important in its own right, it gives strong sanctions that can be applied to an offending company, permitting outright concellation of contracts. But perhaps more important, the order represents the Administration's first move in the realm of civil rights. Given the temper of a Congress with which Kennedy has had to compromise on last year's compromises, executive orders pushing hard on the limits of existing laws are about the only kind of immediate civil rights action his Administration will take. Thus, 10925 will provide on indication whether Kennedy meant what...
...Gerbig is notorious for his hot temper and sensitive ears, and his effectiveness is generally not improved by the rooting section that forms behind whichever goal he is defending...