Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WAGNER: DIE WALKÜRE, (Deutsche Grammophon; 5 LPs). Despite all of its flames, blood, magic swords and flying goddesses, this crystal-and-velvet score is the most human of Wagner's Ring operas. Conductor Herbert von Karajan's slow, deliberate pace illuminates each stroke of genius in the score, but some listeners will find that he has sacrificed passion for clarity and restrained the anguish that Wagner's wild climaxes can evoke. No matter: Jon Vickers' Siegmund is powerful and Régine Crespin's hotoyohos are properly rousing...
...British Empire"-has traditionally been a preacher of scholarship and fire. Humanist John Colet, who held the post from 1505 to 1519, was the learned friend of Erasmus and More. John Donne, during the reign of James I, uttered sermons from St. Paul's pulpit that will ring in human ears as long as the bell tolls for mankind. From 1911 to 1934, Anglicanism's most prestigious preaching office was occupied by "the Gloomy Dean," William Ralph Inge, who outraged England with his then radical opinions on birth control and pacificism...
...theologian, he feels that such avant-garde Anglicans as Bishop John A. T. Robinson (Honest to God) have gone too far and too fast for the church's faithful. "The ordinary man in the pew," he says, "reminds me of someone who has been ten rounds in the ring with Cassius Clay. He's been faced by the new theology, the new morality, church reunion, liturgical reform. I think the church is in danger of leaving him in the lurch." Sullivan considers his new post "a sort of Eisenhower job as chairman of a team"; as a preacher...
Dutch Uncle. B.I.S. directors -among them central-bank governors from Britain, West Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden Switzerland-confer monthly at Basel with emissaries from nonmembers U.S., Canada and Japan. That inner ring forms what financiers have dubbed "the Basel Club": eleven men whose banks control three-quarters of the world's gold and currency reserves. Originally set up in 1930 to handle reparations payments from World War I, the B.I.S. gained stature chiefly after the mid-'50s as European currency controls ended. From the regular meetings in Basel sprang such innovations as currency swaps...
Eastern's president, Floyd Hall, who has constantly sought to upgrade the company's promotion and advertising (its television commercial, "The Birds," won an award at Cannes in 1966), decided to finance the whole Ring rather than one of its parts. "If you're going to beat the drum," said Hall, "hit it hard enough for people to hear you." Aside from the avalanche of publicity triggered by the announcement, angel Eastern's generosity rates a special credit line in Met programs...