Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have no private life and no personality," Nash once joked. In fact, he was a quiet and often private man, even though he spent much of his career on the lecture circuit. He would recite his marvelously serpentine and breathlessly amuck alexandrines like a tenor testing the limit of his lungs, terminating at last in a long-awaited gong of rhyme. His versifications made the bespectacled and gamesomely civilized poet something of a celebrity. His accent ("clam chowder of the East Coast-New England with a little Savannah at odd moments") was sometimes heard on radio's "Information, Please...
...week stand in New York that will be followed by a road tour lasting until August. Cranko had sat through scores of Carmen operas, and he says "I always thought they were all wrong. If you see in Carmen nothing but a nymphomaniac who meets a tenor, seduces him, gets tired of him, then meets a bullfighter-it's a bore." Instead, he went back to the original Mérimée novel to help create Carmen as a shrewd, tough outcast-a gypsy in an age when gypsies were treated very much like blacks in an intolerant...
...that the Federal Government would not "break up a community from an economic standpoint because those homes are too expensive for some people to move into." Both sides are now waiting for the Administration's formal decision on the case -a decision all agree will likely set the tenor for the suburban legal battles to come all across...
...Wolves sing. > There are lupine vocal registers-soprano wolves, contralto wolves, tenor wolves, even a bass wolf or two. > Wolves have a characteristic call in which the interval of the major sixth (C to A) predominates...
Story finished, Schonberg treated startled staffers in the Times city room to a few tenor and bass wolf howls of his own. Not bad,Gelb noted...