Word: shrilling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...midst of all this. Soprano Farrell proved only a partial blessing. In the middle range her voice is still gloriously warm, rich and powerful, as moving as any voice heard in opera today. But in the upper registers it was strained and at times shrill. Once past the strenuous milestone of a Met debut, Farrell is now eagerly awaiting La Gioconda, her other Met starring role this season. "Gioconda," she says confidently. "That's a role you can really sink your teeth into...
...economies, has unmistakably opted for the U.S. way rather than the Russian way of organizing society and producing goods. In most of the free world, the popular appeal of Communism as an alternative way of life has shrunk to nearly zero, and once-strong Communist parties have dwindled to shrill slivers. U.S. styles of living have spread around the world; even behind the Iron Curtain, teen-agers imitate their U.S. counterparts in dress and musical tastes...
...contrast, The Sentence, by Giacomo Manzoni, 28, was a shrill, spare twelve-tone work that made fiendishly difficult demands on the singers and left the orchestra pit littered, in the words of one critic, with "the murdered bodies of the instruments." Set in China in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation, the opera told of a wife who betrays her husband to the enemy, is tried by the village council and dismissed with the existentialist in junction: "We neither condemn nor absolve you. You alone can decide whether you were right or wrong, and your soul throughout eternity will...
Trial by Night. As the U.S. answered Castro's shrill accusations, it got some backing from an unexpected source. In Manhattan, Ambassador Teresa Casuso, a longtime friend of Castro's, and Cuba's alternate U.N. delegate, announced bitterly that she had resigned. Said Casuso: "Castro talks in the name of liberating us, but he is a dictator...
...Arab world from Cairo to Damascus to Jidda broke into shrill cries of rage. Hurriedly calling delegates from many Mideast countries for an emergency meeting, the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (membership: 2,000,000) gave the New York pickets a week to halt their boycott. "Unless they unload Cleopatra by that time, we will do the same thing to American ships in all Arab ports," said a top official. Sure enough, at the zero hour, Alexandria dockers resoundingly proclaimed, "In the name of Allah and Arabism, we Arab workers by Allah's blessing start our boycott...