Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, the real trouble with this version of the Ajax is not the staging, or the confusion, or the uncomfortable missed entrances; it is that only two members of the cast have sufficient presence to command attention in spite of the Greek they are speaking. One of them, Myra Rubin (who plays both Athena and Tecmessa) even manages to come through because of it, for she has a graceful and compelling sense of metre that in itself expresses the sweet grief that Sophocles wanted to express. Donald Lyons as Menelaus uses a different technique; he swaggers with impressive competence both...
Mark DeVoto's Introduction and Allegro, which the orchestra, bless them, performed twice, is an attractive and intelligent, if occasionally somewhat disjoined, piece of music. Mr. DeVoto writes with easy assurance; his deft, varied and imaginative scoring and an evident command of conventional forms allow him to experiment at leisure with the work's harmonies and tonalities. This is a relaxed and clever style reminiscent, if anything, of the early Ernest Bloch--I have in mind particularly, his Concerto grosso for Orchestra...
...boat reversed an earlier defeat at the hands of the Engineers, winning by almost two lengths in the second race of the day. The Crimson, in command all the way, had a 7:05 clocking as opposed to Tech's 7:12.1 and Dartmouth...
...evening of the first day of last week's ill-fated expedition to the Bay of Pigs, Artime's taped voice was heard coming over Miami's WMET. Introduced as "Commander in Chief of the Army of Liberation," Artime announced: "I am in Cuba again after my promise last year that I would come back." By battle's end, he reportedly lay dead in the sunken radio ship. There were rumors that there might be important casualties on the other side as well. Ernesto ("Che") Guevara was reported gravely wounded in the head, the result...
...their new boss took command, Timesmen took up the game of guessing his probable successor. Three likely contenders: Dryfoos' son Robert. 16, and the men, as yet anonymous, who will marry Dryfoos' two daughters-Jacqueline, 17, and Susan, 14-and in so doing take a long step toward becoming the next custodian of Adolph Ochs's family domain...