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Four Words. All the while, Mrs. Roosevelt remained vividly alive. She learned to lower her voice. Her glowing eyes and eager smile inspired warmth. Her travels averaged 40,000 miles in each of her first eight years in the White House. When war broke out, she carried greetings from the President to U.S. servicemen from London to the South Pacific, returned with personal messages for their families. In one South Pacific hospital she horrified her escorts by bursting into a particular ward to handshake and kiss the patients. The trouble was that the ward was set aside for those with...
When painfully from out the warmth...
...time when the French threatened the British navy on one hand and the spirit of mutiny sapped it on the other. His shipmates are a sorry, ragtag lot, full of hate and fear for the sadistic master-at-arms, Mister Claggart. They find in Billy Budd's artless warmth a hope that somehow he can save them from Claggart's bullying; even the Avenger's aloof Captain Vere takes a liking to the pure-minded...
Power to Spare. The real standouts, however, were Tenor Sandor Konya as Walther and Baritone Otto Wiener, who was making his Met debut in the role of Sachs. Hungarian-born Tenor Konya displayed a voice that had warmth, agility and power to spare; in his last act Prize Song he came as close as any man can to stopping a Wagnerian opera in its tracks. Baritone Wiener did not have a voice of flogging power, but he dominated the stage by sheer dramatic invention; he made Sachs a completely human figure...
...Kennedys are quite unnecessary to the success of EMK. As a man, Ted is handsome, vigorous and charming. As a politician, Ted has the glamor of JFK without the President's inhibitions and introspection. Ted strides through a factory slapping backs with the natural political zest, though not the warmth, of Nelson Rockefeller. Ted enjoys campaigning. Last May he told delegates to the State Convention, "A candidate can't expect support unless he asks for it, and I'm here asking." This phrase is still repeated by the candidate dozens of times a day all through the State...