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Madame Olga Averino's song recital in Sanders Theatre Monray night was notable not so much for vocal quality as for interpretive excellence. Her voice, despite its tonal richness and vigor, has limitations. Particularly in the very high and very low registers, she seemed to show signs of strain as well as uncertain pitch...
...harsh limelight of publicity beats upon her as fiercely as it ever did during the years of the New Deal. Her vigor has prompted her friend & admirer, Anna Rosenberg, to call her the "jet plane with a fringe on top." But Mrs. Roosevelt has changed during her years alone. For one thing, in her appearance. Although she has aged visibly, more than one fascinated Frenchman, watching her speak this year in Paris, murmured: "Madame Roosevelt is becoming beautiful." This new look stems, in part, from an automobile accident which occurred one day in August 1946, as she was driving down...
...Protestantism is the wrong dragon today. Any lances that can be spared from the anti-Communist battle had better be tossed at other targets than Protestantism. A second lesson from current history might be derived from a comparison of the vitality and vigor of American Catholicism flourishing in a Protestant stronghold with the protected and overadvertised brand of Catholicism in Spain...
...preference before the April 15 primary . . . In announcing that my personal preference for the nomination is General Eisenhower, I clearly stated . . . that I would be bound by any decisive vote in our preferential primary, and that if Senator Taft won the nomination I would support him with all the vigor and energy at my command . . . If my personal preference had happened to be Senator Taft, would he then have charged that I destroyed the intent of the preferential primary? . . . The unmistakable fact is that the Taft drive has collapsed as a result of successive setbacks in New Hampshire and Minnesota...
...perhaps, that to him every man is a personality rather than a figure, whether it be Hannibal, Stalin, Marshall, Pendergast, or the lone Socialist voter in Independence, Missouri. This gives him an unusual view of history, and a useful one. Since he interprets the past with the same vigor and simplicity as the present, he converts history into almost personal experience. His special area of interest in the last few years has, of course, been the presidency. Although not all his opinions and observations are incisive, or even strictly accurate, most of them reveal remarkable insight into...