Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soprano Schleuter sang bitingly sharp, and with a sickening, undulating vibrato. Tristan's frayed baying could only be heard when Isolde was swooning at half-voice. Minor characters lurched about the stage cataleptically. The orchestra got into the spirit of things by burbling and sputtering. Wrote the New York Times's Olin Downes: "One of the dullest performances of Tristan that we recall, with a new Isolde who is certainly, beyond doubt or peradventure, the worst impersonator of the title part in our considerable experience of the opera...
Rebecca also possessed two other provocative talents-an ability to put her mental finger on the key detail of a complicated situation or character, and a sharp tongue. She is still in brisk command of both assets. In Manhattan last summer, she was introduced to arch John Erskine, author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy, The Human Life of Jesus and some 40 other books. Said Erskine: "I've been reading your clever articles and I wonder if they're sincere." Snapped Miss West: "I've been reading yours, and I never wonder about either...
Loser. In Boston, Allan Sharp, who in 1942 had bet his doctor $10 that he would not live to be 65, happily mailed the money on his birthday, walked back upstairs, dropped dead...
...Holster. In Knoxville, Cora Sharp was treated for a painful flesh wound, explained to police that her pistol had gone off accidentally as she was trying to make a fast draw from her brassiere...
Packard pointed to the mid-western colleges, a sharp contrast to this situation, where departments of five or six men are often employed to teach public speaking and liberal grants are given to debating societies with which to hire coaches or pay the professors for their coaching time...