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...tenor to a lirico spinto (midway between lyric and dramatic). He is not identified with any single role, but ranging between the romantic bel canto flights of Lucia di Lammermoor and the more declamatory style of Turandot or La Fanciulla del West, he has created some memorable characterizations: Don Jose in Carmen, Rodolfo in La Boheme, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto...
...three-year scholarship, starting a career that led him at last to Covent Garden and a stunning success as Aeneas in Berlioz' The Trojans (TIME, June 17, 1957). A firm believer in the equal importance of acting and singing. Vickers is passionate and convincing as Otello, Don Jose in Carmen, Florestan in Fidelio and Siegmund in Die Walkure. His big, shining voice, surging over the orchestra, would seem ideal for Wagner, but Vickers is in no hurry to become a Heldentenor. "I love Wagner," says he, "but I want to sing for 25 years, not ten. German exploits...
...Rebellion. After Per&243;n the vivo, Frondizi-the austere, finger-wagging intellectual-was an emotional frustration. The next-to-youngest of 14 children born to an immigrant Italian bridge builder, Frondizi was a shy, unexceptional youth, who showed his first flash of spirit in 1930 against then Dictator Jose Uri-buru. Frondizi completed a six-year law course in three, with honors. But on graduation day he stood on the platform, and refused to accept his honors certificate "from a government put in power and maintained by military force...
...Jose da Costa Nunes of Portugal; Efrem Forni, the apostolic nuncio to Belgium; Archbishop Juan Landazuri Ricketts of Lima; Gabriel Acacio Coussa of Syria; Archbishop Raul Silva Henriques of Santiago, Chile; Archbishop Leo Suenens of Malines-Brussels; Dominican Father Michael Browne; Vatican Librarian Anselmo Albareda. In accordance with tradition, Giovanni Panico and Ildebrando Antoniutti, the apostolic nuncios to Portugal and Spain, will receive their red hats from the heads of state in those countries. - Cardinals who belong to religious orders wear robes that are the same color as the habit of their order...
...Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design and architec for the project, revealed yesterday that the complex will contain "three high-rise apartment blocks" and several lower buildings. The 18-story structures will be about twice the height of Leverett Towers...