Word: faired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST (Angel). This collection of lieder, arias and assorted other snippets gives a fair indication of Fischer-Dieskau's tal ent. He is a meticulous singer who never sloughs off a nuance or fuzzes an accent. Though his baritone is aptly described as dry rather than warm, he has range and power to spare. Lieder are his forte, but this disk demonstrates a thoroughgoing comprehension of opera as well...
EVELYN LEAR AND THOMAS STEWART: ROMANTISCHE DUETTE (Deutsche Grammophon). This recording unites the husband-and-wife team in a sedate but romantic hoedown. Evelyn Lear, most noted for her flamboyant version of Berg's violently atonal Lulu, becomes a demure turtledove in Schumann's Fair Little Flower. Thomas Stewart, memorable for his dour and doomed Wotan, pours out Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More with as much authority as any cotton-pick-in' baritone in the business...
...catalogue of individual American shapers would fill an encyclopedia. Margaret Sanger advocated contraception in the face of laws that branded her a criminal. Novelist Upton Sinclair sanitized Chicago's abattoirs with his 1906 shocker, The Jungle. Henry Ford wheeled a nation and established the principle of a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. All these and a host of others were evolutionaries who worked change without revolution. Ralph Nader, for all his abrasive qualities and puzzling motives, is very much their inheritor...
...working-class from real inequities to imagined and irrelevant ones demonstrates the power of values that have been long instilled. When the working class man frets about his "high" taxes, he does not pause to worry about the loopholes by which the rich escape paying anything like a fair share because he is preoccupied instead with the thought that his money is being given out in some fraction to welfare recipients. He is more suspectible to the latter viewpoint because all his life he has been taught to believe that a man should work for himself to amass as much...
...current exhibition's answer: Both. Throughout his career, Kline turned out both superb and atrocious works, and the 92 pictures on display include rather more than a fair share of failures. Paradoxically, the uneven quality may even enhance Kline's reputation. Few artists could hope to survive such a warts-and-all survey. Yet undeniably the powerful radicalism of the mustachioed Pennsylvanian comes across-though sometimes as crude as corn whisky, and sometimes as bombastic as soapbox oratory...