Word: warren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bible (Louisiana's Russell Long did both, in an eleven-hour talkathon). Once in a while the Southerners gave way for subject matter of a more businesslike tone, e.g., a speech on U.S. defense by Massachusetts' Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy. Here and there, a speaker attacked the "Warren" Supreme Court: Mississippi's James Eastland scornfully labeled the Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the 1957 Civil Rights Act as "crap" (though a thoughtful clerk recorded it as "claptrap"). Arkansas' William Fulbright, time-tested segregationist, took the occasion to lambaste President Eisenhower for turning...
Last week, at a performance of Verdi's La Forza del Destino, the first great ovation was reserved for Soprano Renata Tebaldi, making her first Met appearance of the season in the role of Leonora. But in the second act, Baritone Leonard Warren came on as Don Carlo and promptly mesmerized the great house in the famous duet with Tenor Richard Tucker as Don Alvaro. Later, dressed in the gold and black uniform of a Spanish grenadier, Warren soliloquized about his gravely wounded comrade-in-arms: "Morir! . . . Tremenda cosa!" ("To die! Tremendous thing!"). Finally he sang the great aria...
Then, holding in one hand a portrait of Leonora, he started downstage to make his exit with only a few moments left of Act II. When he was a few feet short of the wings, the picture fell from his hand, and Warren pitched forward on his face and lay still...
These famous words, written by Bartolomeo Vanzetti shortly before his execution with Nicolo Sacco in 1927, may well be sung before long from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House-and quite an aria they would make for Leonard Warren or Giorgio Tozzi. Last week the Met announced that it has taken an option on a Sacco-Vanzetti opera by 55-year-old Composer Marc Blitzstein, to be written on commission from the Ford Foundation...
...Warren and Dorothy get married if they're in love. But they'd better not settle in that small town where people print in their college catalogues the fine principles that they don't have the guts or the decency to live...