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...Clear-Cut Call. Said Dwight David Eisenhower: "Senator Lodge's announcement of yesterday, as reported in the press, gives an accurate account of the general tenor of my political convictions and of my Republican voting record. He was correct also in stating that I would not seek nomination to political office . . . My convictions in this regard have been reinforced by the character and importance of the duty with which I was charged more than a year...
...degree but in kind. It is a morbid condition of the whole self rather than a series of overt acts ... In a certain sense, personal responsibility ... is here at its most extreme ... It is an obligation to answer not only for particular acts or omissions but. . . for the tenor of a whole life ... It involves an admission of total moral bankruptcy, a plea of 'Guilty' without mitigating circumstances...
Berg: Wozzeck (Eileen Farrell, soprano; Mack Harrell and Ralph Herbert, baritones; David Lloyd, tenor; Choruses of the Schola Cantorum and High School of Music and Art; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). An excellent recording of Conductor Mitropoulos' memorable concert performance in Carnegie Hall last spring (TIME, April...
Conley was cast in the difficult role of the Sicilian patriot Arrigo, and at first his small but silvery tenor seemed hemmed in by the sumptuous sounds of Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (also U.S.-born) and the rumbling bass of Bulgarian Boris Christoff. But by the second act his voice had warmed up, and so had the elegant and traditionally indifferent first-night audience. When the final curtain came down on the blood-bathed stage, Milanese were shouting "Conelay, Conelay" from their carnation-decked boxes...
...appeared more her page than her promised." L'ltalia found his high notes "bell-like and sure," but his movements "uncertain and indefinite." The Communist L'Unità snarled at his "atrocious pronunciation, insupportable to the Italian ear." But even L'Unità admitted that U.S. Tenor Conley has a voice. His high notes, it said, were "impeccable...