Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lined the streets as he passed. Between speeches in Australia, the visitor shed his necktie and distributed the steaks in person at a Queensland sheep-station barbecue. In Melbourne he went out of his way to shake hands with policemen, housewives, schoolchildren and members of his honor guard. "A triumph," cried London's Spectator. "He is not known to have put a foot wrong, to have hurt any feelings, or to have dropped any bricks." The Economist spoke admiringly of "the new, uninhibited Macmillan...
...Radames, Irene Dalis as Amneris. Leonard Warren as Amonasro-which might well have overpowered her. Tentative at first, Singer Davy warmed up as the evening progressed, sang her low tones with a throaty richness, her upper ones with limpid, free-flowing clarity. Her O patria mia was a triumph of yearning beauty. She lacked the sheer vocal force to carry over Baum's bellowing and Warren's thunderous tones, but she matched the acting of the veteran cast with a touchingly natural performance. All in all, Soprano Davy proved that the Met is where she belongs...
...Mabel Mercer (Atlantic; 2 LPs). In a triumph of mind over voice, Songstress Mercer runs through 20-odd songs she made famous in small cafés. Her voice, never sumptuous, wobbles badly in such numbers as Let Me Love You and You Will Wear Velvet, but the phrasing is impeccable, and she can still infuse songs like Some Fine Day and The End of a Love Affair with an emotional charge that other singers never guessed was there...
...beat the Tigers, the Crimson defense will have to be tighter than in the team's triumph over Brown last weekend. Princeton, rated 14 points better than the visitors, has an excellently balanced workhorse five, all of whom can and will shoot...
...final scene some 17 years later, Oedipus is warned again-this time against probing into the past. Everyone treats him with a kind of imploring "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no truths." But he is as dogged about disaster as he was about triumph. When at last the self-blinded Oedipus writhes and moans, Teiresias plumbs his insatiable pride: "He wanted to be the happiest of men, now he wants to be the unhappiest...