Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, with the aplomb of a carnival barker, they filled forms, parried salesmen, made dates--and disappointed everyone who had expected a sweaty confrontation between them and the newest Harvard stalwarts...
...fault. At least he seems to think so, and the splashy new Met monument in Lincoln Center provides dramatic supporting evidence. The swipes from his critics, the tantrums of his singers, the sour notes from his musicians, all fail to stir even a hemidemisemiquaver of irritation in his aplomb. Among the scores of appropriate quotations from operas that he uses for punctuation, Rudolf Bing likes best the line from the Flying Dutchman: "My ship is firm; it suffers no damage...
Most of the girls took the news with aplomb. But some of the biggest stars failed to show up for one reason or another. Russia's Press sisters, Tamara and Irina, who between them own four world records (and are known to their competitors as "the Press brothers") stayed home to care for their sick mother. Russian Runners Tatiana Schelkanova and Maria Itkina were side lined with undisclosed injuries. Rumania's towering (6 ft. ½ in.) Iolanda Balas, the current world record holder in the ladies' high jump, went to Budapest-but only as a spectator, wearing...
Soprano Marsh was scheduled to sing again, but she developed tonsillitis. When the malady lingered on, a hasty call went out to Veronica Tyler. Arriving from New York a bare hour ahead of time with her yellow gown over her arm, Tyler swept onstage with complete aplomb and velvet voice to repeat two of the arias she had sung in her previous appearance with the orchestra. "These young singers and musicians are great-no pretensions, natural, enthusiastic, no pettiness," marveled Orchestra Manager Thomas Perry. Shrugged Baltimore-born Tyler: "I've learned to relax, and I love to sing...
...husband bugs her bedroom, dynamites her mother, and climbs into a gorilla suit to turn her wedding party into a King Kong-sized disaster. Throughout it all, she remains radiant and ripe, a plum with aplomb that drove the critics wild...