Word: vocalisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brash, confident Wotan of Das Rheingold and Die Walkure, the splendid American bass James Morris served notice that he will be a Teutonic god of vocal power and majesty for years to come. Proud, haughty and resolutely amoral, Morris dominated the drama as he must to give depth to the tragedy that is, ultimately, Wotan's doing. Equally impressive was the Hungarian-born soprano Eva Marton, a legitimate contender for the mantle of Birgit Nilsson with impassioned performances of Brunnhilde in Siegfried and Gotterdammerung. Awakened by Siegfried on the Valkyrie rock, Marton sang Brunnhilde's Heil dir, Sonne greeting...
...somewhat strained, Reagan went to considerable lengths to retain her. Though it has never been mentioned publicly, Secretary of State George Shultz offered her a job as his deputy. Kirkpatrick has continued to please conservative supporters with calls for an assertive U.S. foreign policy. She has been especially vocal in support of aid to the antigovernment contras in Nicaragua, and proudly notes that the rebels have named one of their 400-man brigades the Jeane Kirkpatrick Task Force...
Ishmael Jaffree had had enough. Throughout the 1981-82 school year, three of his children had been confronted with vocal prayer sessions at their grade schools in Mobile. Jaffree, an agnostic and a lawyer, had objected to the prayers, but got nowhere. Finally he sued, and won rulings that suspended not only spoken prayers but also a state law authorizing a daily moment of silence "for meditation or voluntary prayer." Jaffree's victory on the first issue was not surprising. Spoken prayers, okayed by the Alabama legislature in 1982, were in open defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, which...
...states that have moment-of-silence statutes; if they move to eliminate any endorsement of prayer, the practice can apparently win approval from the current court. Massachusetts started the machinery to do that the day after the Jaffree decision. Many backers of school prayer, however, want vocal affirmation, not silent opportunity. They hope last week's ruling has roiled enough anger to energize the flagging effort to pass a constitutional amendment formally authorizing voluntary school prayer. "We're going to turn the heat up on Congress," vows conservative Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie. For all the turmoil and upset generated...
Frank Stanton, a vocal defender of First Amendment rights, has played a key role in the development of radio and television since his appointment in 1946 as president and chief operating officer of CBS, a job he held for 25 years...