TY - BOOK AU - Orosa,Rosalinda L. TI - Above the throng: : portraits & profiles, sketches and silhouttes U1 - 920 PY - 1980///] CY - Quezon City PB - Heritage Publication House KW - Biography KW - 20th century KW - Entertainers KW - lcgft N1 - The many guises of excellence; An unfinished portrait / Ferdinand E. Marcos; Disturber of the peace / Patrick Peyton; The autocrat of the dinner table / Lin Yutang; Obsessive hobby / F. Resurreccion Hidalgo; Twilight in prison / Mochtar Lubis; A peso to collect / Francisco Ortigas, Jr; No overnight feat / Cesar Bengzon; Three buzzes from the postman / Hilaria Labog; Tradition and dynamic change / Serafin Quiason; Formula of sanity / Francis Parisi; Playwright and patriot / Claro M. Recto; Heaven on earth / Sr. Redempta; Radically different / Claudio Teehankee; India and beyond / Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit; The passing of a Titan / Hubertus Kuhne; Quiet achiever / Delfin Jaranilla; The intellectual as cynic / I.P. Soliongco; Off-the-sari speeches; Supremely edifying / Helen Keller; Another unfinished portrait / Imelda Romualdez Marcos; The Filipino artist on guard; The ambivalent Maverick / Federico Elizalde; Her pyrrhic victory / Leonor Orosa Goquingco; Mighty mite of music / Oscar Yatco; The total pianist / Benjamin Tupas; Our very own Prima Donna / Evelyn Mandac; Letters from an anguished heart / Maniya Barredo; Intimations of world fame / Cecile Licad; The visiting artist off-guard; Instant stradivarius / Yehudi Menuhin; Nothing like a dame / Margot Fonteyn; Nightly neurosis / Helen Hayes; The contralto and we; Enigmatic smiles / The Kogans; A sentimental boy at heart / Van Cliburn; Close-up of a super diva; Quotable quotes / Martha Graham; Pops and otherwise / Arthur Fiedler; Reams of private messages / Montserrat Caballe; Essentially a humanist / Rufino Tamayo; A legacy from Caruso / Jan Peerce; Ballerina with a sense of humor / Alexandria Danilova; Voluble mime / Marcel Marceau; A thrust parried / Emlyn Williams; Generosity of spirit / Jose Greco; No battlecry from brunhilde; The conductor as comedienne / Antonia Brico; The general who talks to horses / Yeh-tsu-Pai; Met soprano at (horse) play ER -