Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Leonard Warren sang some 650 performances of 22 roles. He knew no German or French, nor did he sing Mozart in any language; he was largely limited to the big Italian works. But within that grateful range he created a whole gallery of careful portrayals infused with a passion and authority no baritone of his time could surpass...
Warren's passion for accuracy was felt at the Met. He offered advice to conductors, directors, photographers, engineers and other singers. Several seasons ago, when he disagreed with the conductor's tempo during a Verdi opera, he grabbed the man by the throat and announced: "If you don't stick to the proper tempo, so help me I'll walk off the stage...
...Dimitri Mitropoulos and fine performances from most of the cast. But the opera was chiefly Warren's, and during the denunciation of the villainous Paolo in the famed Council Chamber scene, he sent his great mahogany-hued voice soaring over the orchestra with a power and blazing passion that made for a memorable experience...
...Reason Why. Son of a Lima, Ohio tire and battery dealer, 39-year-old Hugh has picked up most of his post-high-school education on his own. On the Paar show he has been the resident intellectual with a passion for explaining things. The night of the walkout, Paar displayed a toy that worked with magnets, and Downs followed up with a detailed revelation about the existence of positive and negative magnetic attractions. Once Paar told how he had almost tipped over on water skis, whereupon Downs took two minutes to discourse on the mechanics of water skiing. Paar...
...have to sit on the lid to press you down or wait until you rot a little." Now the boy is digging the grave, and it is hard work. More than that, his secret resentments against the old man rise to the level of passion. For the old man was a windy man of God, a self-proclaimed "prophet" who raised the boy to go into the world to preach the Word. He especially charged him to baptize his city cousin, an idiot child whose schoolteacher father is a sweaty atheist. At the thought of this mission, young Tarwater...