Word: edith
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Reaction was violent. "This is the sort of thing that the Communist government does in Russia," cried Massachusetts' Representative Edith Nourse Rogers. "A strange, dangerous, intolerable thing," echoed the Boston Record. But the tax-paying public, once it got the point that only tax-dodgers need fear the ringing doorbell, seemed well pleased with "Operation Snoop," as the press called it. Last week, when the tabulation of the two-day canvass was reported, it looked like a tax-collector's dream. Out of 8,800 New Englanders questioned, 1,150 (13%) confessed delinquencies...
...year-old Ralph Vaughan Williams or 39-year-old Benjamin Britten, he has turned out some pieces (e.g., his Symphony and Viola Concerto) that are considered better than any of their more celebrated works. In the U.S. he is known for Façade, an impudent accompaniment for Edith Sitwell's eccentric verses; Belshazzar's Feast, a big dramatic choral work; and Orb and Sceptre, a grandiose march commissioned for the coronation. Visiting the U.S. with his Argentine born wife, he will conduct these three works in the Hollywood Bowl this week...
...uncertain years between the wars, a trim but still sizable singer who put across Parlez-Moi d'Amour as if Paris and amour had not changed since the golden nineties (although one line in the song admitted: "Actually, I don't believe any of it"). Then came Edith Piaf, so thin that she was barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number (La Vie en Rose), but in reality a siren of disillusion, a kind of existentialist among chanteuses. But Patachou is almost a rural reactionary, who goes back to a sturdy, bucolic France that...
...heresies have "pretty well faded out," but in his forthcoming massive biography of the master, he concedes that Freud's was "not a complete, rounded-off theory . . . but a gradually opening vista, occasionally blurred and again clarified." Last week's conference brought at least one blur. Dr. Edith Weigert of Chevy Chase, Md. reported that, while theoretically the patient "transfers" to the analyst, it can work the other way too. Sometimes, said Dr. Weigert, "in phases of negative transference" the analyst's "own anxieties exceed those of the patient...
...after due reflection: "To find something similar to Edith Piaf's Parisian material but in the American idiom, a song with a story about people." When she finds a song she likes, she works on it like an actor boning up on a script. "A song deals with a person," she tells herself. "I have to get an image of that person and convey that image to everyone else." Songstress Sanders also tries for "a sort of sexiness which accepts sex without having to emphasize...