Word: lear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Your remark about Humphrey's strategy ("he seems to play both sides of the fence or simply straddle it") [Aug. 30] aroused the Edward Lear in me: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey Is guilty of arrant mugwumpery: Now a dove, then hawk, With his fast doubletalk He cozens nonthinkers with trumpery...
...political savvy. His sometimes brash young assistants inevitably angered P.D.P. regulars accustomed to Muñoz's paternalistic style. Sánchez sought to broaden the party's base and wean it from Muñoz's ubiquitous influence. But Muñoz, like a Latin Lear, proved less than willing to see his rule pass to the next generation...
...goods, is easily mistaken for "real wealth." Lest you scoff, note the commoners around you who drop names with a straight face, the bar fly who mutters, "I never should have dropped Bauxite," and the man who, professing to enjoy driving his Volkswagen, laughs lightly at a streaking Lear Jet, shaking his head quizzically and mumbling "Nouveau riche." Which is to say, it works, and has been working for quite some time. Convincing people is only a matter of practice and skill...
...Lear Siegler...