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...time New York Times Critic Dore Ashton does her sympathetic best to sustain the Louvre thesis that Moreau was a kind of New Frontiersman of Abstraction. Like the thoroughgoing pro that he was, Moreau often did sketches before starting a large work, some being orchestrations of color without the trace of an image. These are Moreau's "abstractions," and much is made of the fact that he squeezed paint on canvas directly from the tube, used his palette knife instead of a brush, and left his fingerprints still visible. Was he the great "precursor" of 20th century abstraction? "There...
These convenient caricatures have been sharply revised during recent years by the surge of scholarly interest in the Revolutionary period, and no image has been more greatly altered than that of Alexander Hamilton. In these first two volumes of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, which trace him to the age of 27, Hamilton emerges as a dazzlingly brilliant young man, autocratic certainly, but far from austere, a proud and self-confident pragmatist, a deft writer with an equal flair for savage public sarcasm and impassioned private love letters, and a leader who suffered fools...
These are humble scenes, and Mr. Thompson presents them leisurely and reverently without any trace of bombast or pomposity. Mr. Robert A. Brooks, who staged the Christ Church production, has been as plain in his direction. Against the backdrop of a simple wooden frame set by Patricia Finn, Mr. Brooks has set his elegantly robed characters in effectively static and stylized positions; neither the music nor the singers themselves are bedevilled by necessities of operatic nuances...
Then it was the turn of U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Speaking solemnly, without a trace of his familiar humor, he delivered one of his best speeches since he came to the U.N. The substance of his argument was no different from the established U.S. position, but the temperate earnestness of his style impressed most listeners. He appealed to the neutral nations who mistakenly "believe that the U.N. can somehow accommodate this unbridled power" and warned that they were making a tragic mistake if they yielded to "the claims of an aggressive and unregenerate" Red China, that still acts...
...those demented old dames of the old operas." The attraction is understandable, for Sutherland has just the voice to do the old dames justice. Crystalline, open-throated, reflex-quick, her voice can shower feathery trills on an audience or take perilous leaps with agility and astonishing accuracy. It can trace graceful arabesques of passion or float from note to note with liquid ease. Most remarkable, it does not thin out, as do most coloratura voices, into shrill parody in the upper register. Indeed, Sutherland's upper register is her best: she can soar in full voice to a high...