Word: unevennesses
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...only woman my brother ever loved," Günter Peis's news instincts were understandably aroused. The woman turned out to be Maria Reiter, blonde, buxom and 49, now living quietly in a Munich suburb. Reluctant at first, Maria finally gave Peis the long-kept secret of her uneven romance with Hitler from 1926 into the '305. As Peis reported it in the German weekly, Der Stern, and in the London Sunday Pictorial, it was straight soap opera. But Maria had letters to prove...
...onstage convincingly gaunt, wild-eyed, almost green with malevolence and makeup. She paced the stage and clawed the air like a caged lioness. Callas took twelve curtain calls, earned, mighty critical bravos ("terrifying," "elemental," "chilling") for a superb dramatic display. As for her voice, critics as usual found it uneven; the Daily Telegraph judged it "disappointingly small and lacking in resonance." But without the Callas dramatic presence, critics agreed, Medea would have been what Cherubini predicted in 1815: "Too severe for English tastes...
...after week to listen and shuffle to the music they danced to a generation ago. To preserve that music in its raw state, Folkways set up recording equipment in New Orleans, issued an album titled Music of the Dance Halls. The recorded sound is muddy and the selections are uneven, but at its best the album offers a fascinating sample of some fine, forgotten talents (including Billie and Dee Dee Pierce) and an evocation of the smoky nights when the splintery little dance halls used to shiver to the oldtime barrelhouse love laments: "Ah got mah big fat momma/Mah...
...Uneven pitching was characteristic of both teams. While Brandeis tightened up on giving away hits in the second half of the game, it yielded seven walks in the last three innings. On the other hand Harvard's Ed Wadsworth began to lose control towards the end of the game, and although he walked only five, he let the count go up to 3-2 for almost every batter in the last three innings, and got his four strikeouts early...
...Sunnylands Grange Select Summer School for Boys" is a moth-Eton travesty of an English public school. Its playing fields of welfare-state spivs supply most of the antic humor to be found in this uneven first novel. Oliver Ventnor, the book's mock-hero, is sent down from Oxford for forging his uncle's name to a check. Stony-broke and stonily rebuked by his pastor father, Oliver signs on as a teaching "captain" at Sunnylands Grange...