Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nuclear testing, would not insist on an end at the same time to production of nuclear materials for weapons. Dulles stood aside while Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining turned down the proposal, backed by AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson-and Dwight Eisenhower. Where the defeat left Honest Harold, no one was sure. Powerful Administration staffers hoped he would quit rather than be fired. But, said a Washington acquaintance: "His soundings to run for governor of Pennsylvania have not borne fruit. I don't know what he could...
...rest of the evening, he waved an unaccustomed baton (he has been using it to reduce the strain of conducting since he injured his back last fall). On the program: Robert Schumann's overture to Manfred and Richard Strauss's Don Quixote, the same pieces he conducted that day 14 years ago when he took over the Philharmonic as a substitute for ailing Bruno Walter to become the most famous young man about U.S. music. The parallel was obvious, and up in the gallery a new generation of fans whistled and cheered Lennie's happy landing...
...really be that I was once the little girl and that one day I will be the woman?...How can it happen, when, after all, I always remain the same?" So muses the Marschallin, the wise, witty and autumnal beauty in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. For years the part was the special glory of Opera Singer Lotte Lehmann, and its touch of middle-aging melancholy took on a special meaning for her as Soprano Lehmann herself gradually grew too old to sing it (her last Metropolitan Opera appearance in the role...
Occasionally Lehmann interrupted a singer with a general comment (she recalled Strauss's own advice to her: "Have the courage to stand still"), sometimes spoke delightedly of a favorite passage: "This is one of the wonderful moments that the conductor has to wait for the singer." Said one of her awed young pupils: "I have learned just by being near her. She must have been a fantastically great artist...
...basis for agreement at the moment is a pact to halt nuclear tests. Whether such action be taken in the expanded United Nations Disarmament Commission, at a foreign ministers' meeting, or at the summit, it would represent the best antidote to the present tension. Although AEC Chairman Strauss has kept up a constant campaign in favor of the tests, his stand can be overruled and he may well be out of a job in June. It will be a more difficult job to unfreeze John Foster Dulles, but even he cannot sit tight forever in a world that is constantly...