Word: warmth
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...standout. But Marshall's soprano, as the highest solo voice, could be heard floating magnificently above even the massed ensemble. In the more subdued sections of Beethoven's Mass, her tone was pure and wellrounded, her florid passages had a liquid sound and her phrasing a natural warmth that her colleagues, for all their greater experience, never quite matched...
...creaky dancing as by her croaking voice. Any one of the 13 chorus girls can dance better than she does. But, like such great performers as Ethel Merman and. Bea Lillie, Rosalind Russell represents the triumph of personality over technique: she communicates to her audience all the rewarding warmth and humor of shared experience...
...plants and the birds (many a migrant didn't even bother to go south this year) were not alone in their response to earth's premature warmth. College and high-school basketball tournaments were just beginning-in Indiana, no fewer than 755 high-school teams were playing off for the state championship-but youth was acting as though winter was already gone. In Omaha, for instance, high-school girls were strapping dog collars around their ankles-the right ankle if they were "slaves to love," the left if they were merely hopeful...
...down for an evening of bridge, and tuna-fish sandwiches. "He was aware of the larger possibilities of life, the beautiful, excruciating entanglements that other people got into, and survived, but these required an enormous effort, and in his observation were rarely worth it; he liked better the passing warmth that asked nothing of him beyond the moment's courtesy or interest...
Despite its gallop, the case is excellent. Audrey Hepburn justifies her notices, playing Gigi with a vibrant warmth. With remarkable beauty and a purr in her voice, she is completely captivating as a spirited hoyden or a demure young lady...