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Conductor Ronald C. Perera '63 was also impressive, and whenever he could subdue his orchestra (which suffered from ragged attacks and generally fuzzy intonation) he was able to achieve a quiet and quite unself-conscious sound from singers and accompanists alike...
...Cape, the cheers had long since faded. But the unself-conscious awe that swept over the missilemen and other observers hung on from the first moment of the rocket's majestic birth and the first wild dance of flame that fired it. Said one man: "There was something about the way it went up. No nonsense. It seemed to know what...
...raised-eyebrow voice when the accounts are out of line. Mother Griffin has a large, solid body, but her brain is the stuff pillows are made of. Her life is one long strategic retreat. Two Griffin children dominate the story. Dick, the novel's narrator, is an unself-confident 16, torn between the slavish loyalty demanded by his father and the slavish devotion he feels for his older sister, Brace. At the camera distance of one generation, 19-year-old Brace is the sister of Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley-a victim of the new conformism, revolt...
...five and ten, Prince Michael and Princess Alexandra, son & daughter of the photogenic Duchess of Kent, already faced pretty heavy responsibilities. At Westminster next week, he would be a page and she a bridesmaid. Meantime they did their royal best to look like an unposed, unself-conscious family for the photographers...
...same unself-conscious way, Helen never doubted that she would be a great singer, and because she was so sure, she was in no hurry. When she was 23, in the summer of 1926, Rudolph Ganz, the conductor of the St. Louis Symphony, took her to New York's Lewisohn Stadium for a guest appearance. That was the year Lauritz Melchior made his Metropolitan debut in Tannhäuser, an event eclipsed by another debut the evening of the same day. With the greatest blowing & puffing of publicity ever to accompany a U.S. operatic debut, Marion Talley...