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...still one of the supreme vocal artists of the day. Here she gives a seamless performance, as if all four songs were drawn on one breath. Her performance may not quite measure up to Lisa Delia Casa's classic recording of a decade ago, which is an irresistible blend of youthfulness and melancholy; yet Schwarzkopf sounds as if she had lived the life now ending and better understands the tragic resignation...
Died. Martin W. Clement, 84, president (1935-49) and board chairman (1949-51) of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who handled practically every job on the country's biggest road at one time or another, becoming a happy blend of operating and financial man, which let him maintain the Pennsy's unbroken record of dividend payments throughout the Depression while electrifying the line from New York to Harrisburg; of severe anemia; in Rosemont...
Passbook Joy. However nobly its theories are portrayed, apartheid is nothing less than mass intimidation. It is, says Novelist Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), "the finest blend of cruelty and idealism ever devised...
...Concentrating most of his efforts on the set-pieces (the long, crowded scenes in the tavern), he lets his talented cast fend for themselves in the shorter dialogue scenes with little blocking to guide them. The balance is really nice, particularly in the second half when Woyzeck becomes a blend of introspective horror, and Mayerian theatricality...
Hand in Hand. Luci's last days as Miss Johnson and her first as Mrs. Nugent were, like Luci herself, a beguiling blend of the gay and the sentimental, the hectic and the religious, the Texan and the presidential. There were parties every day, starting with a reception for the diplomatic corps, progressing through a Western-style cookout to a black-tie dinner dance on the wedding eve, where President Johnson sentimentally declared in a toast that he was "as proud as a man can be when his youngest daughter is doing the most wonderful thing in the world...