Word: collier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onrushing doom. As drama, the opera unfolded with all the shivering tension of one long, gradually building shriek, thanks in part to the almost balletic direction of Director Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek). But what made Mourning move was the inspired acting of two darkly beautiful sopranos-Marie Collier as the lusting mother, and Evelyn Lear as the revengeful daughter...
Clever Chatter. With Collier cast as the mother, Composer Levy had to alter the role from mezzo to soprano; he also changed the role of her son from tenor to baritone. That was regrettable. Though John Reardon as the son and Sherill Milnes as the lover both performed superbly, the pairing of two baritones and two sopranos robbed the vocal writing of contrast. More damaging was the fact that Levy's mildly modern score, conducted by Zubin Mehta, did not meet the challenge of the theme, too often resorted to clever percussive chattering that seemed to say "crisis coming...
...Pink Pretzel" is one of eight carts managed and owned by Gerry Stern, a law student, and Robert Collier, a graduate of Pennsylvania. Business is booming...
Uncertain Domain. The map of the U.S. publishing world is divided into three unequal sectors. The largest consists of text-and reference books-chiefly encyclopaedias-which account for 50% of book sales and most of the industry's profits. Some firms devote themselves largely to this field. Qrqwell-Collier & Macmillan, one of the giants, does an annual business of $142 million. The second sector, where profits are just as reliable, is religious publishing; the Bible steadily sells 30 million copies a year...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Unable to face the pressures and pleasures of a normal world, a band of hermits holes up in a department store-hiding by day, emerging by night. Based on John Collier's short story, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, "Evening Primrose" stars Anthony Perkins, Dorothy Stickney, Charmian Carr and Larry Gates...