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...Leontyne Price and Anna Moffo had to go to European houses to learn how to sing with professional skill. A major exception to that failing is Soprano Phyllis Curtin, who made an immensely successful Metropolitan Opera debut this season in Cosi fan Tutte. Soprano Curtin was also a smash in Europe before she came to the Met, but her European success merely topped off a career patiently built in America. Last week, as she followed a superbly rousing performance of Strauss's Salome at the Vienna Staatsoper with another performance of Cosi in Vienna, that career looked increasingly like...
...year that saw the hip little world of Author Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, 38, go clamorously smash -from last November's stabbing of his wife to his ignominious ouster from a February poetry reading for an alleged "raw recital of filth"-was ending amid the sweet smell of vindication. A Manhattan judge who likes to "gamble on human beings" last week gambled on a suspended sentence for confessed Spouse-Assaulter Mailer. Simultaneously, Mailer's Manhattan publisher, G. P. Putnam's Sons, was venturing a different sort of risk: release of the first collection...
...title of the smash hit musical of Broadway's new season-How to Succeed m Business Without Really Trying -is actually a bit misleading. The hero is energetic, guileful, scheming, ambitious, shrewd, sly and ruthless. In short, he really tries hard, and his swift progression from window washer to chairman of the board is accomplished with such finesse that you scarcely notice the blood on the corpses. The character, in fact, is so basically repulsive that there is probably only one Broadway actor who could turn this despicable crud into the most lovable monster since Barrie's crocodile...
...translations with Bashir's Urdu eloquence. Many observers wondered if the camel driver had not been well coached for his journey; he tended to repeat his most popular lines in the different cities he visited. But what ever the explanation, there was no gainsaying that Bashir was a smash hit where-ever he went. And if a tentmaker could be a poet, many asked, why not a camel driver...
...better be ready, or it will soon hear from its commanding officer, one of the toughest soldiers in a tough U.S. Army. Says Major General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, 47: "Our mission is to be prepared to fight. We are ready to fight." If war comes in Germany, it will smash against the U.S. Seventh Army, which guards more than 300 miles of the East German and Czechoslovakian border and anchors the NATO defense line that stretches 650 miles from Austria to the North Sea. The most vital mission in the five-division Seventh Army belongs to the 3rd Armored, which...