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...evening's concert proved to be unlike any Toscanini had ever conducted before. Until two weeks ago, the Maestro's performances held the fire, vigor and precision for which he is famous. But at the final rehearsal he was upset, and walked out on the orchestra. At the concert-excerpts from his beloved Wagner operas-Toscanini's mind seemed to be far away. There were passages when his beat was robust as of old. There were other times when he almost stopped conducting, seeming to stand aside, listening to the music. Then the incredible happened: during...
...Radio City rehearsal studio last week, a 15-year-old girl in a bright-beaded dress sang a ragged version of Secret Love and then went into a tap dance that showed more vigor than precision. When she had finished, she stood, thin-armed and anxious, staring toward the control room where Director Lloyd Marx and Associate Producer Wanda Ellis were judging the auditions for the 1,000th performance of the Original Amateur Hour...
Ferocity & Chic. What the painting did have was a vigor to match its huge size. In places it looks as vital as a plunge of lightning-or at least as the stormy "N" of Napoleon's signature. Those who find exhilaration in fast driving at night might well warm to the picture, for it creates a sense of deep black space shot through with gleams, glares, flashes and slow beams of light. The blood-red tangle at the center, brilliantly meshed with the whites, is like a single note of ferocity which saves the whole from coldness...
Lack of understanding or vigor on the part of two central characters--Arthur Loeb as the Captain and Colgate Salisbury as Bellamy--weakened The Eighth Day. Self-consciously experimental to begin with, the play relied heavily on these two roles for continuity...
...present. Men of such diverse opinions as Howard Fast and Gerald L. K. Smith have been granted permission to speak. Despite attacks from the American Legion and feelings of vague uneasiness, the men in University Hall have allowed advocates of unpopular ideas to be heard. Tonight, the health and vigor of this attitude will receive new proof when Owen Lattimore speaks at the United Nations Council forum at New Lecture Hall...