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...Alcestis. "I never had any great drive to be a singer." The drive may not have been great, but almost from the start the singing was. A onetime successful radio singer, with her own show, Farrell soon branched into recitals and concert-form operas, where she displayed a warm, vibrant voice, capable to a remarkable degree of denning feeling by alterations in placement and tone (fortunate for Farrell, since for all her sensitivity to mood she is not far ahead of Tebaldi in acting ability). Although she has the power to sing Wagner, she has stuck largely with an Italian...
...voice became more vibrant as she gradually worked her way up to the present, resting on Zola for a moment, deftly controverting recent critical opinion about the author of Germinal. He was rooted in the cycle of nature and his novels of defeat contain an affirmation of life, invincible and forever, she insisted. Somehow, in the next moment, Wordsworth and Fenimore Cooper had been left far behind, and Miss McCarthy was talking about Marx and Hannah Arendt, the cycle of nature and the encroachment of modern industrial civilization on nature...
Nevertheless, Davis won a tremendous ovation of appreciation. The applause was a fitting tribute to vibrant musician and a person of great courage. The reverend Gary Davis, now a struggling Harlem resident, is blind...
...beauty and color of Rio's carnival. Black Orpheus recaptures not only the myth, but also the frenzied rites of the dancers who made their torchlit way from Athens to the Eleusinian shore. With brilliant color that revels in the setting's crotic intensity, the filming captures visually the vibrant joy and sad lyricism of the soundtrack...
Conservative West Germans, who have long sniffed at made-in-America marketing techniques, had never seen anything like it. Splashed in four vibrant colors across their newspapers not long ago were glossy-faced ads touting a new cigarette called Reyno, the Teutonic version of R.J. Reynolds' mentholated Salem. German smokers responded to the adman's tune like the children of Hamelin, promptly made Reyno one of the top selling cigarettes among more than 200 West German brands. And German ad agencies promptly began copying the four-color newspaper process, which was introduced to Germany by the flourishing Frankfurt...