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...general excellence of the production: the competent singing, the fine instrumental support, and the brilliant costumery, designed by Anne Hollander--all under the apt direction of Robert Beckwith. The setting, moreover, was very appropriate: the antique statuary and columnwork of the Fogg Courtyard blended well with the archaic twang of the harpsichords, the delicate timbre of the lutes, and the Renaissance line of Monteverdi's melody--austere, exuberant, or poignant...
...Borneo. Roxanne, the female, looks like an ordinary monkey, but Cyrano, the male, has a long, drooping, flexible nose that would make the fortune of a TV comedian. Perhaps Roxanne admires the nose, but it has no use except to give Cyrano's cry a nasal, down-East twang...
Gregorio takes the wheel and Hemingway lets himself down to the deck and sits down. His voice has an ordinary sound, but high-pitched for the big frame that produces it. For all his years away from his rootland, he speaks with an unmistakable Midwestern twang. Absentmindedly he rubs a star-shaped scar near his right foot, one of the scars left by the mortar shell which gravely wounded him at Fossalta, Italy, in 1918 when he was a volunteer ambulance driver. Nick Adams, hero of many of Hemingway's short stories, was wounded at approximately the same place...
...King of the Khyber Rifles (TIME, Jan. 11), the hero (Rock Hudson) is a British officer, who in this case has a Midwestern twang to his speech. He affects to defect to the enemy, but only in order to diddle some secrets out of a raja (Arnold Moss) with a slight New York accent. Add to the linguistic confusion a Hindu girl (Ursula Thiess) who has a German accent, and even the children for whom the movie is intended may suspect that the action is not quite faithful to history...
Across the jack-pine hills of Idaho came the twang of a familiar guitar and the whine of an even more familiar baritone lustily singing: "From this valley they say you are going, / We will miss your sweet face and your smile." Glen Taylor, troubadour politician, ex-Senator (1944-50) and Henry Wallace's vice-presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948, had come home from self-imposed exile in California to ask a favor from the voters. Said Taylor: "I want to go back to Washington because I want...