Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course it would be wrong to focus so exclusively on the political tenor of what is now largely an apolitical campus. There are other aspects of insularity as well, and these have been well documented. Predecessors of mine have filled this page in years past with reams of statistics suggesting the narrow career-minded focus of most Harvard students, and they are largely correct. It's not so much that I object to my classmates' overwhelming decision to pursue law, business, or medicine--all worthwhile professions--as to the unthinking way in which many seem to hop on the assembly...
Morse says the tenor of the Radcliffe Fund's pitch to alumnae is adamant, that "a Harvard education is not perfect, and women need to have more of a part of it." She adds that Radcliffe is "the only part of the University that is really focusing on women that's not a criticism of Harvard, but we do have a vested interest in women...
...Since national elections tend to sway the undecided voters in a local election, the feeling in North Carolina is that Hunt and Helms are hostages to the political fortunes of Mondale and Reagan. They are thus both representative of and subject to the national forces that will decide the tenor of the next four years...
...City Opera this season, all the signs pointed to a disaster. The work was little known, and had been dismissed by earlier generations as inconsequential. The intended conductor, C. William Harwood, died unexpectedly last April at the age of 36, and the lead soprano withdrew. During the dress rehearsal, Tenor Barry McCauley objected to Conductor Allesandro Siciliani's tempos and stormed off, while Siciliani threatened to take the next plane back to Italy. Peace was restored, but two hours before the curtain, a can of drain cleaner exploded in the face of the orchestra's harpist; a hasty...
...Rondine, the company has revived Léo Delibes' fragile song of the subcontinent, Lakmé, and mounted an operatic staging of Stephen Sondheim's Grand Guignol Broadway masterpiece, Sweeney Todd; next month it presents Philip Glass's new opera Akhnaten. Splendid singing? Clarion-voiced Tenor Jerry Hadley shone as Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, and the company's impressive roster of young sopranos this season includes Kaaren Erickson, Elizabeth Hynes and Elizabeth Knighton...