Word: rococo
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Rafferty's main campaign weapon was his prose style-a rococo Winchellese that might draw some stern blue-penciling from any sophomore composition teacher, but nonetheless put over his ideas with plenty of punch. Just in time for the campaign, he published a collection of his articles entitled Suffer, Little Children...
...Station WRFM (a third show is broadcast over WNYC, a municipally owned and supported station). De Koven has resolutely banished all commercial sponsors, buys all the records he uses. He claims-and so far no one has felt the urge to challenge him -that he plays more baroque and rococo music (hence his coinage-"barococo") than any other disk jockey in the world...
...shall certainly have some sleepless nights." With these words, Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani last week led his ruling Christian Democratic Party into a new phase of postwar politics. Concluding a five-day congress in Naples' rococo San Carlo opera house, some 2,000 delegates approved the party's apertura a sinistra (TIME, Jan. 12), the long-discussed collaboration with the left-wing Socialists...
...immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into a slot and is ready for anything. Ross also does a take-off on Baby, It's Cold Outside, turning himself into a jivey simulacrum of a Chicago mobster. In a rococo version of Ebbtide, the whole group does everything from bird calls to an imitation of the surf...
...thunder of a spring storm crackled overhead, opera buffs from all Europe converged on lushly landscaped Schwetzingen Castle, in the heart of the Rhineland. They crossed the moat, crowded through the rococo entrance gallery, sat down in the gilded 18th century theater and waited to be shocked. The program that promised so much musical surprise: the latest work by the controversial Wunderkind of modern opera, German-born Hans Werner Henze, 34, whose cherubic face and businesslike manner disguise a talent for brazen dissonance, eerie melody and phantasmagorical plots. For good measure, the libretto was by British Poet W. H. Auden...