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...fill the gigantic mold of a Wagnerian hero, a tenor should 1) have a voice big enough and resonant enough to soar over the timpani-tempered Wagnerian orchestra, 2) be robust enough to support swooning Wagnerian sopranos, and 3) preferably be named Lauritz Melchior. At the Metropolitan Opera last week, a topnotch revival of Wagner's Die Walkuere (conducted by Karl Boehm) offered the audience a dramatic tenor who ideally fulfilled the first two requirements and made the third one seem unimportant. The tenor: 33-year-old, Canadian-born Jon Vickers...
...London and his famous ramble through the Hebrides with Johnson, Boswell is at his best. The pictures he draws are wine smeared and flecked with spittle, but they catch a brilliant likeness: Oliver Goldsmith fuming because he cannot break into a conversation dominated by Johnson; Johnson himself, with his "robust and rather dreadful figure, lumbering in attendance to a beautiful dinner-partner"; Mrs. Boswell trying hard to be polite to Johnson despite his "irregular hours and uncouth habits...
...writes of having observed farm animals cure themselves of illnesses by resting, fasting and eating herbs, but stops short of crediting them with the manufacture of vinegar. Yet he says a dose of vinegar added to a cow's ration guarantees that her calf will be born robust, well furred, and with such inherited smartness that it will take water from a pail without teaching. By extension from animal to human husbandry, Jarvis contends that if a pregnant woman adds honey and vinegar to a well-balanced diet, her baby will have a thick shock of hair and long...
...health was so robust that doctors had to fudge a little to avoid contradicting his own self-diagnosed complaint of "chronic bronchitis." They tactfully reported that he had a "persistent mild tracheobronchitis...
Leger's early work has a rugged texture, and gruff and brusque approach to subject matter that his smooth-surfaced later pictures lack. TheSmokers of 1911 and Variations of Form of 1913 show this style at its most robust and most assertive. Their power is unparalleled in the rest of the show...