Word: tenderness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite some indignation over this devotion to Composer Giacomo Puccini's realism of plot and tender score, the first performance of La Bohème was a success. The critics aloofly condemned Puccini for writing down to the mob. But there were 15 curtain calls. The great Giuseppe Verdi was notably absent, but Pietro (Cavalleria Rusticana) Mascagni and Ruggiero (Pagliacci) Leoncavallo, sitting in boxes, led the cheering. Tall, droop-mustached Giacomo Puccini, 37, tearfully embraced Toscanini. La Bohème, a work with a realistic human story,* has been one of the most popular operas ever since...
...Crimson stickwielders will be reinforced tonight by the addition of one or two veterans of the 1942 Jayvee or Freshman teams, just returned from the wars. Coach Chase mentioned as his tentative starting lineup Johnny Knowles as goal-tender, Bob Cowen (who will leave the NROTC unit with his commission February 9) and Dick Greeley at the defense positions, Peter Eaton at left wing, Bob Feloney at center, and Bill Ayres, the team's captain at right wing...
...mane in the frost, the glint of armor and the impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...
...Vines Have Tender Grapes (Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien; TIME, Sept...
...Vines Have Tender Grapes (Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien; TIME, Sept...