Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers of TIME'S 1956 cover story on Maria Meneghini Callas will remember (if not, see cut), the diva can sing like a bird and feud like a fishwife. Front pages ever since have attested to her tantrum power, and there have been moments when the sounds of her critics almost obscured the sound of her voice. But last week, in her first Metropolitan Opera appearance of the season, Callas the singer soared above Callas the shrew, and sang Traviata with an impassioned poignancy unmatched in years. See Music, Diva's Return...
...otherwise unknown composer, William Wolsieffer. The score is dedicated to Composer Bales's grandfather, a Union captain, but at least at one point the suspicion is aroused that Virginia-born Richard Bales has fired one last shot for the Grey: to record the boom of a cannon, Columbia sound engineers had a twelve-pounder touched off at Manassas, the site of two of the North's worst defeats...
Irma and Colette go together like cognac and coffee. Colette, too, ran the streets of Montmartre when she was a child. She worked, with no success, in a succession of sleazy cafes in Casablanca, Oran and Algiers ("I don't like to sing against the sound of popping champagne corks"). After a spell as a secretary (in a music publishing house) and as a band vocalist, she moved, still virtually unknown, into the role of Irma...
...that, up rose Connecticut's Republican Prescott Bush, who drives a 1955 Cadillac, to sound off against "these gargantuan monsters being forced down the throats of the buying public. They are too big, too fast, too powerful. They are rapidly making obsolete our highways and endangering life and limb, and are enormously wasteful of raw materials" that should be saved for national security. "Unless American manufacturers meet the public demand for smaller, cheaper cars, European imports will take over a steadily increasing share of the domestic market, with serious effects upon employment in American automobile plants...
...this is apt to sound like pie-machine-in-the-sky, Kelso-Adler back up their ideas with concrete-and controversial -proposals. Among their suggestions: equity-sharing plans, distribution to stockholders of all corporate profits in the case of "mature" corporations, abolition of corporate income taxes and revision of personal income taxes, abolition of inheritance taxes. (At times, the program has the ring of "Capitalists of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your tax forms.") All capitalists-meaning, eventually, all citizens-would get a just return for their investments, limited only by another requirement of justice: that...