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...relationships and rock-sure control. He attacked at a slower than usual tempo, underscored the sensuous quality of the music without letting his orchestra wallow in it. There were the usual first-night flaws. During the second-act love duet, the word über-mächtig "vanished without trace" from Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen's memory. With a series of semaphore cues that almost sent him clambering on the stage, Sawallisch brought order out of chaos while Soprano Birgit Nilsson improvised for several measures. But the third act went off with well-oiled precision, and the audience responded with...
...Charles there was nothing left but to show his subjects how a king could die. At the trial he pleaded the divine right of kings, denied the right of Commons to try him at all. All his life he had stammered, but on this occasion there was no trace of it. When he took leave of two of his children and intimates, his courtesy won the admiration of his jailers, and when the exiled Prince of Wales (Charles II of the Restoration) sent a signed blank sheet of paper to Parliament agreeing to anything that would save his father...
Since the dangerously radioactive cobalt 60 is not a product of fission, it must have come from some other element, perhaps nonradioactive cobalt 59, exposed to free neutrons given off by the thermonuclear explosion. It could never have been more than a trace in the sea water, or the careful tests made in the Marshalls just after the explosion would have detected it. But clams are apparently better chemists than men are; they went after the cobalt 60 for reasons of their own and collected an astonishing amount of the radioacitve isotope...
Unsuspected Mechanism. Weiss and Shipman were not aware when they began their work that clams have a love for cobalt. To find out whether other species than the giant clam like to collect it, they added a little cobalt to San Francisco Bay water (which normally has no detectable trace) and put some local clams into it. Later analysis by the Navy team showed that these clams also have the trait of collecting cobalt...
...good--this is expected--but that everyone in both choruses as well seems perfectly at ease on the stage and participates in the staccato by-play so central to this type of comedy. Both men's and women's choruses were superb musically and movement-wise with no trace of awkwardness...