Word: terrae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soprano who can trill for a quarter of a century on the coloratura's high and skittish vocal trapeze is a notable rarity; this musical generation has Lily Pons. At an age (about 48) when most coloraturas seek the terra firma of German Lieder (where they can be expected to last indefinitely), Trouper Lily pours out her Caro Nome, her Bell Song from Lakme and other acrobatic items of coloratura literature, and gives more than a dozen opera performances and two dozen concerts a year...
Social Labyrinth. Angela Madison is the natural leader of the quartet; she is striking if not pretty, and supposed by the town, for no clear reason, to be intellectual. Ellen Terra Rook is small, squashy and ripe as a berry. Hope Stone suffers from having been born up North, but in her literal-minded way she, too, burns with the hungers of youth. Carrie Gregory, crippled by polio, cuts her way through life with her tongue. Different as they are, all agree on one thing: each is out to land Rector Barbee...
...Cezanne-and read avidly through the Greek classics. The classics, he felt, had everything a sculptor could want, especially the story of how Jupiter disguised himself as a bull and carried the fair Europa off to Crete. Nakian spent five years pummeling and twisting the clay for a huge terra-cotta abstract of the Rape of Europa. "It was a tremendous, wild figure, more bizarre than Picasso or Henry Moore," but it lacked "greatness." Nakian destroyed it with blows of his sledge...
Like the Metropolitan Museum's sculpture survey of last year (TIME, Dec. 17), this one turned out to be largely leaden and sometimes laughable. The unassuming grace of Clara Fasano's small terra cotta Siesta ($450) made it a legitimate standout. But the more typical exhibits, e.g., Maurice Glickman's hard-bitten Struggle ($5,000 in bronze) and Bernard Rosenthal's insectile Accordion Player ($750), were notable mainly for their strangeness. Granting that the nation's demand for sculpture is unfortunately limited, a good deal of the national supply seems to be unhappily misshapen...
...pilots fly to Smith every year for a week-end. Competition centers around liquid consumption and maneuvers are restricted to terra firma. Results have never been announced...