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...true for Brooklyn-born Soprano Klara Barlow, 45. In a dozen years of big parts with minor companies and substitute assignments in major houses, Klara never stopped believing. Now she was on the great stage of the Met, making rapturous musical love to handsome Jess Thomas, the reliable Wagnerian tenor. When at last she died by Thomas' side at the end of the Liebestod, the crowd went wild...
...London always meant the most to me," exulted a magnanimous Maria Callas, 50, after she had ignited the Royal Festival Hall's S.R.O. audience. Ending an eight-year absence from the London stage, Callas shared a program of four duets and three solos each with Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, 52. Three thousand ticket holders, who had spent an uneasy month of suspense after Callas canceled a previous concert, responded ecstatically. They gave the diva a 30-minute standing ovation, pelted the stage with flowers and finally mobbed her limousine. Exhilarated, Callas declared: "I can go on from here...
...abrupt reversal, the General Services Administration (GSA) rewrote significant sections of the so-called Scope of Work Report, apparently changing the outline's tenor from its often-attacked pro-Kennedy stance to an impartial position...
PEOPLE OPPOSED TO social change often argue that disobeying the law is not the best way to bring about reform. But men did not make laws to act as obstacles to a moral society. Laws reflect the moral tenor of society, and an obsolete law is never changed unless people act to oppose...
Dour Oratory. In any case, the tenor of the regime's early statements made clear that its primary concern was in reinstating outright military rule. "The people were literally being dragged into an electoral adventure," the government announced in words that were reminiscent of the dour oratory of the 1967 coup. Instead of fulfilling the colonels' original goals and bringing about "the cleansing of public life," the official statement continued, Papadopoulos was allowing the country to be pushed "to the same habits against which the armed forces revolted in April...