Word: ursula
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...movie? They sure would-and did, when Carlo Ponti told them so. But last week the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the order that Mother Cabrini founded, showed it was just as adept at deflating phony publicity. "We feel very strongly," wrote Mother Ursula, president of Cabrini College, Radnor, Pa., "that Miss Loren is the worst possible choice to portray a holy woman." In the first place, there were "the bigamy charges." And secondly, her protest continued, "Sophia doesn't have the physique. Mother Cabrini was a small, slender woman. Miss Loren," Mother Ursula observed...
...Finally, Ursula Oppens came and played Beethoven. She played him as he should be played, with the overall lightness that this last of the rococo concerti deserves (for although numbered the First, this is actually the second of Beethoven's piano concerti, and in the last three he had completely transcended the form as Mozart had left it), yet did not slight the brooding moments foretelling what dark depths would be revealed in the composer's later music. In other words, she achieved the difficult synthesis of rococo and romantic that is Beethoven's music...
...describes the painfulness of desire with lyrical agony, recalling his cry in the Sorrows of Priepus-- "All flesh is trouble." Such passages inevitably echo Lawrence. Yet Dahlberg can write in a subsequent passage of Lizzie's troubles with her bladder. One can hardly imagine Ursula or Lady Chatterley, or Lawrence's own mother in See and Lovers, with such an ailment...
...Ursula Andress (or Un-dress, as they called her on the Doctor No Set) may have been more decorative, but Miss Bianchi makes a far more appealing heroine. She even shows some acting talent in struggling against the ridiculous characterization cooked up for her by the adapters. But alas, even beauty and pluck cannot save her from looking silly at least half of her time on camera. One sample exchange...
...musical highlight of the evening was Ursula Oppens' fine performance of the Beethoven Second Piano Concerto. Miss Oppens' command of the instrument is now familiar to Cambridge audiences; her phrasing last night was beautiful, revealing a through understanding of the music. Only occasionally did exaggerated rubato obscure a cadence or mar an elision. Her musicianship showed through especially in the pedalling of the second movement and throughout the cadenza of the first. The orchestra, despite an irresistable tendency to rush, supported her quite well. The soloist herself took command when the Adagio turned into an Andante in restoring the original...