Word: valhalla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century, Danish-born Lauritz Melchior, retired from the opera stage 19 years ago. Since then, he observes accurately enough, "there has been no one to replace me." One reason is that his major roles require a Heldentenor (heroic tenor), that rare breed of singer with the stature of a Valhalla deity, the projection of a diesel horn and the stamina of a Channel swimmer...
...challenge only the grading that relegates the Master Sherlock Holmes to Straight City, after running him, blasphemously and preposterously, with Charlie Chan, who gets into Valhalla. Chan, an amusing charlatan, should have been paired with Mr. Moto, and that correct company could well sustain your preference. But Holmes should be paired either with Dr. Watson or Conan Doyle (proving again that the creature can be greater than the creator); in any case, to make this correct evaluation is to place Sherlock Holmes automatically into the "Yes" column. If you placed Conan Doyle beside Edgar Allan Poe, then certainly Doyle would...
...exclusive possession of good guys who are losers, or even of bad guys who are winners. As a guide to further understanding, here is a totally arbitrary gallery of familiar figures from legend, history and the arts, who by their works or hangups are either elected to the Valhalla of Soul (YES) or relegated to Straight City...
Lacoste is much more than a shirtmaker. He is already enshrined in an athletic valhalla that Daughter Catherine may never reach. Son of a prosperous Parisian airplane-engine maker, Lacoste dropped out of mechanical engineering studies to play tennis. He played so well that he was twice Forest Hills and Wimbledon champion as well as three-time champion of France. He was a member of the only French team that ever won the Davis Cup (1927, with Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon as fellow team members). Lacoste played so fiercely that sportswriters dubbed him le Crocodile. When...
...lifelong battles with critics, rival composers, performers and jealous husbands formed the sonorous core of his own career, and even blared into some of his opera plots. This summer, 84 years after Wagner's death, the storms still rage over the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth, that Bavarian operatic Valhalla built by the composer to house definitive performances of his musico-dramatic masterworks...