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Fernando Corena, as Don Pasquale, entered wearing a vivid green apron, for the Met staging makes him a passionate amateur gardener; he sang in a deeply resonant style that may ultimately restore their proper musical qualities to comic basso roles, long lost in mere boom-and-rasp renditions. Tenor Cesare Valletti sang with the sweetness and eloquence of a low-pressure Caruso. Pretty Coloratura Peters was expertly coquettish. Using her voice almost as if it were a tangible object, she tossed a trill to port, another to starboard, a third dead amidships of the great opera house...
...Vivid & Exciting Sir: The Julie Harris piece [Nov. 28] is brilliant-the most vivid and exciting, not to say the best-written estimate of an actress I've read in years and years...
...Young had forbidden it, saying roundly: "All their council & wisdom . . . don't weigh as much with me as the weight of a Fly Tird. Excuse me for my vulgarity ..." Lee was kinder and more considerate than his leader. His pen portraits of his wives are among his most vivid...
HIGHWAY OF THE SUN, by Victor W. von Hagen (320 pp.; Duell, Sloan & Pearce-Llttle, Brown; $6), describes an expedition undertaken in 1952 to retrace the famous Inca roads of the west coast of South America. A vivid and frequently fascinating mixture of history, anthropology and archaeology which sharply restores an ancient civilization...
...opposite each other. NBC's Wide Wide World whisked its audience all over the map. The camera lazed its way down the Mississippi, poked into a New Jersey lane where lovers walked and old men raked autumn leaves, wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets. There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center, the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair, an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell's jet racer at Arizona...