Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Congressmen criticized the court for an uneven decision and promised to hopper several bills to change it. With somewhat better cause, Justice John Marshall Harlan criticized Congress for passing "this ill-defined statute," which compelled seven judges to write six separate decisions that settled the claims of five states by setting two different sets of boundaries...
...varied and subtle shadings. It was at its most spectacular when it surged over the orchestra in Siegmund's furious outbursts, but it was also wonderfully expressive in the quieter waters of the first act's tenderly lyrical Winterstuerme, wichen dem Wonnemond. Vickers received stirring if somewhat uneven support from Sopranos Aase Nordmo Loevberg as Sieglinde, Birgit Nilsson as Bruennhilde, and a whole troop of excellent Valkyries, but he was plainly the star of the evening. Soprano Nilsson: "I hope Vickers will be for me what Melchior was to Flagstad...
While the number of workers available in the next ten years will be sufficient to continue the economy's growth, the uneven distribution of workers, said Mitchell, "will require a major overhaul in the employment policies of many businesses." Therefore, employers will have to hire older workers and abandon policies against hiring workers because of their sex, race, religion or nationality...
...Tenor Charles Anthony were adequate as the jailer's daughter, Marzelline, and the turnkey Jacquino, and Bass Oskar Czerwenka contributed a strong, virile-voiced Jailer Rocco. But in their first-act quartet in the form of a canon, Mir ist so wunderbar, the four were often shakily uneven. The only real star of the evening proved to be Canadian Tenor Jon Vickers as Florestan, who sang his moving second-act aria, In des Lebens Frühlingstagen (In the springtime days of life), with conviction and power. The orchestra under Conductor Karl Boehm was ragged, and the winds tootled...
...Miracle Worker. William Gibson's uneven but impressive drama about the early life of Helen Keller gets electric force from Actresses Anne Bancroft and 13-year-old Patty Duke...