Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson editorial, pontificating from Mount Olympus, on "the paucity of first rate black social scientists" exemplifies a neo-racist attitude whose effects are no less debilitating than the institutional racism Harvard's hiring policy functions to perpetuate. The paternalistic, misinformed, patronizing tenor of the article distorts and undermines the essential validity of the criticism. Lani Gulnier '71 Connie Hilliard...
...Birnam Wood Country Club in Santa Barbara, Calif., to raise hosannas to Soprano Lotte Lehmann on her 80th birthday. It was the sort of occasion that called forth a telegram of congratulations from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and commanded the presence of such votaries as Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Actress Judith Anderson and Conductor Zubin Mehta. "I am excited and overwhelmed," said Lehmann, who retired 17 years ago but still teaches master classes in voice at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "It is not everyone who can say, 'I have lived exactly as I wanted...
...sang Escamillo with an ample baritone, but sounded ready to launch into "The Girl That I Marry" at the smallest provocation. Carole Bogard's Micaela had lots of potential but her lively soprano couldn't compensate for the inherent dullness of the role. Glade Peterson's powerful and expressive tenor seemed perfect for Don Jose, but he muffed the Flower Song and never fully recovered...
...Cliffie accused herself of selling out. "I felt that by conforming I was eradicating all that was me in my personality. By pretending to be cheerful when I wasn't or by adjusting the tenor of my conversation according to whom I was talking to, I thought I was being hypocritical. I fought all my compromises. I would stare at the person before whom I thought I was compromising myself until my eyes burned...
...front-page news story in Tuesday's CRIMSON [on 'The Double Helix'] is reasonably accurate, although I might complain of a couple of direct quotations made out of context. Nor can I object in general to the tenor of the editorial which appears in Wednesday's CRIMSON. But the editorial is in some parts definitely unfair and inaccurate...