Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Success for a Tenor. Throughout, Director Guthrie kept Carmen's dramatic line strong and clear. He concentrated on the massed scenes, and succeeded in making his crowds and choruses something more than the usual sticky clots of humanity. But he paid attention to his individual characters too. Heretofore, Rise Stevens' acting in the role of Carmen has always had a trace of well-bred sorority girl. This time her Carmen was just short of plain alley...
...Tenor Richard Tucker had a triumph of his own. Singing his first Don José, he proved again that his is probably the finest tenor to be heard today. No actor, he made a brave try to be one, and in the blazing fourth act succeeded. The rest of the cast, notably Frank Guarrera as Escamillo and Nadine Conner as Micaela, rallied to the cause. The orchestra, under Conductor Fritz Reiner, turned in a subtle and glowing performance...
With a quick smile, a fine Irish tenor and a flair for charitable fund raising, Denis W. Delaney traveled a long way. From a job as pick & shovel laborer in the Lawrence, Mass, sewer department, he rose to be Boston's Collector of Internal Revenue, and in the Roman Catholic Church he rose to be a Knight of Malta...
...Clear-Cut Call. Said Dwight David Eisenhower: "Senator Lodge's announcement of yesterday, as reported in the press, gives an accurate account of the general tenor of my political convictions and of my Republican voting record. He was correct also in stating that I would not seek nomination to political office . . . My convictions in this regard have been reinforced by the character and importance of the duty with which I was charged more than a year...
...degree but in kind. It is a morbid condition of the whole self rather than a series of overt acts ... In a certain sense, personal responsibility ... is here at its most extreme ... It is an obligation to answer not only for particular acts or omissions but. . . for the tenor of a whole life ... It involves an admission of total moral bankruptcy, a plea of 'Guilty' without mitigating circumstances...