Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARIO SERENI, a 29-year-old Italian born lyric baritone, has been properly praised for his fine, resonant voice and roasted for wooden acting. As Lord Hepry Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor this season, he sang well, was no more notable for oaken attitudes than many other performers in an art form that pays little heed to Stanislavsky. While the Met, with Robert Merrill and Warren, has enough starring baritones, Sereni will be useful in such important feature roles as Marcello (Bohème) and Silvio (Pagliacci...
Last week the U.S. authorities reaped the consequences of their ineptness as 70,000 Naha citizens clacked briskly to the polls on wooden geta to choose a new mayor. Both candidates were anti-American, and the winner was chosen chiefly because he was more anti-American than his rival...
...University has not yet announced how it will use the remainder of the 10,093 square feet of land on the site. The land includes, at present, a small wooden administration building, and a main building containing three gymnasia, lecture rooms, a science laboratory, and a physical therapy clinic. The value of the property has been estimated at over...
...launch a rocket from a simple wooden trough or stovepipe. A much more elaborate setup is required for adequate safety...
...labor force. The British colonel who commands the prisoners eventually falls in love with the bridge. He builds it better than the Japanese could have done without him, as a symbol of what can be accomplished by British "soldiers, not slaves." So infatuated is he with his wooden love-child that he nearly frustrates an attempt by Allied commandoes to blow...