Word: tenore
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Following the collapse of the Graduate Student Union strike in March, it was apparent that only something as maliciously intriguing as the Watergate debacle could arouse even token political discussion. At that, the tenor of Watergate gossip is one of unsurprised amusement on the part of student activists glad to see their old nemesis, Richard Nixon, taking it on the chin...
Gondolieri Tom Fuller and Paul David Seltzer One tenor, the other a baritone Rule lovelorn maidens and the Baratarian state in Flattering and resonant fair tones...
...probably not of much interest to students of Freudian thought, since Freud, from his side, has fairly effectively kept their intellectual content to a minimum, they are valuable as documents to the man's working personality. Though the correspondence also does not add information that is new, its tenor is further evidence to the fact that inspiring thinkers do not necessarily conduct inspirational private lives. Salome also emerges to her disadvantage: While she expresses herself well, and with considerably more poetry than her more prosaically-minded master, she remains more ladylike than profound. That she was a true lady...
...director's desk, marking the score and consulting with her two co-directors, Giuseppe di Stefano and Fabrizio Melano. During the breaks, Callas and Di Stefano, friends for 20 years, laughed together about the old days-even the 1955 La Traviata performance in Mexico City when Tenor Di Stefano stalked off the stage, leaving Callas stranded in the second act in retaliation for her hogging the duets and curtain calls of the previous evening. "What wonderful things we did then, Pippo," she smiled. They worked with each other as affectionately as they did with the singers...
Judged by many to be the world's greatest dramatic tenor, Melchior actually began his career as a baritone. For four years he labored without distinction. Then a colleague observed that he was "not a baritone, but a tenor with a lid on." Melchior gradually made the switch, but he had to work another decade developing his technique as a tenor...