Word: lambent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Image of America, by R. L. Bruckberger. A literate, levelheaded French priest gives a lambent account of how the American Revolution turned dream into reality, while the Russian Revolution turned mirage into nightmare...
Image of America, by R. L. Bruckberger. A literate, levelheaded French priest gives a lambent account of how the American Revolution turned dream into reality, while the Russian Revolution turned mirage into nightmare...
...singing, which should have been the glory of the performance, was disturbingly uneven. Soprano Rysanek's warm, lambent voice was as beautiful as ever, but she displayed an alarming tendency to soar to high notes and then to wander around dazedly for several bars while she tried to come down again. Bjoerling's lyric tenor lacked the heroic style that the role of Radames demands, and Gobbi was far from his compelling best. Only Mezzo Simionato sang with the range, color and fire that her fans have come to expect of her. The voices of the supporting singers...
...front in the red plush seats, the Metropolitan Opera often gives off the suggestions of high living-the rustle of silks, the lambent touch of mink, a bouquet of costly perfumes. But the $4,500,000-a-year business of putting on the opera, a money-losing enterprise at best, always is a matter of shirtsleeves and hard heads, of penny-pinching and tough bargaining. Last month the Met's money-harried management threatened to cancel next winter's entire season because the managers and the artists' union could not get together on contract terms. But last...