Word: enfante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high time. Behind the pink of its cherry blossoms and beyond the noble sweep of Pierre L'Enfant's broad avenues, Washington long ago became a blighted city, with some of the U.S.'s worst slums and nightmarish traffic. By 1950 the rush to the suburbs was in full surge, tax revenues were plunging, building within the city was at a standstill, and the downtown area alone was short 29,000 parking spaces. Effective plans for rehabilitating the city were lost in the bureaucratic babble of congressional committees, commissions, boards and councils that govern Washington...
Hollywood's aging (54), Austrian-born enfant terrible in the past has bulldozed sparkling performances even out of Frank Sinatra and Gene Tierney, turned out a succession of hits, from wittily naughty The Moon Is Blue to Exodus. For three weeks now he has been turning all Washington into a stage and making all its politicians merely players-and only walk-ons at that...
...Once the enfant terrible of European socialism, the Labor Party calmed down after World War II, ran the country complacently as a heavily subsidized, part-free, part-controlled boom economy. During the election campaign, with all major parties agreeing on foreign policy, there were no issues except a dutiful conservative complaint about inflation. No one bothered to make a serious fight against the anti-NATO, ban-the-bomb mavericks, which may explain how they managed to grab their two seats. If the elections accomplished nothing else, they brought excitement to the country's long becalmed politics...
...months after the death of Com poser Maurice Ravel in 1937, his brother Edouard saw Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and decided that "this is the way L'Enfant et les Sortileges should be presented. Ravel's second and last opera had for its locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists...
Ravel's opera was a critical success but a popular failure at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1926 (the love duet of the cats, with its mewing violins, enraged the audience). Nevertheless, L'Enfant contains some of Ravel's most appealing music, as a fine new Deutsche Gramophon recording conducted by Lorin Maazel-the first of the opera in stereo-again demonstrates...