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Maureen Forrester didn't mind. She long ago resigned herself to the fact that, woe unto her, the contralto in opera is the unsung singer. Of the precious few roles available to the contralto, most are skimpy caricatures of degenerate kings-roles written in olden times for castrati-or "the other woman." "In opera," she says, "the high-frequency voice has it. A contralto has to sing the whole night before anyone is impressed." It is just as well. Forrester is 5 ft. 9 in. and weighs 180 Ibs.; there are not many male singers who could make...
...could find his desk. Switch board operators, unfamiliar with the personnel, fouled up phone calls. Files were locked and the keys were missing. Page proofs were misplaced and lost for hours. Copy boys, new to the neighborhood, wasted precious time on the coffee run. Then, when the presses were finally ready to roll with the first issue of the World Journal Tribune last week, pressmen balked at the, plan to have Mayor Lindsay press the starting button. After all, he is not a union...
John Updike, who writes both poetry and novels, is at his best in the short story, where his mastery of the artistic ecology to which he was born is unstrained by the demands of the long migratory flights of the novel. A rare and precious bird is he, protected by the wardens of The New Yorker magazine, who might justly feel that if it were not for them, such gaudy songbirds might die out for having no place to perch, let alone feed. All 20 of Updike's new collection have been published in that magazine...
Gold now constitutes 86% of all French reserves, compared with 73% at the end of 1964. Moreover, the government is squirreling away the precious metal at such a rate as to account for the entire net U.S. gold drain so far this year. Because France lost millions when the British devalued the pound in 1949, De Gaulle mistrusts keeping much of his country's reserves in either pounds or dollars. More than that, attacking the dollar helps him to reduce U.S. influence inside and outside France...
...inhabitants stalk oxen with a broom and a pan. The Hector of the tale is the village mayor, a paisano whose native cunning has been reinforced by the study of Machiavelli. The Agamemnon of the story is a German captain assigned to rob the village of its only precious possession: 1,320,000 bottles of vermouth...