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A Woman in Love (Barbara Lea; Riverside LP). Eight songs about the tender passion, sung in a jazz environment. Songstress Lea, whose voice is half sweet, half smoky, sings with the wistful perceptiveness of a young Lee Wiley.
Then the columns whispered that Ike was so frustrated around the house at Gettysburg in November that he decided the presidency could not be half so taxing. Asked a reporter: "Did you miss the bustle of the presidency while you were there?" Said Ike: "Anybody who has been busy, when...
Vintage Rotgut. For those who want to hear the original version, there is a new Threepenny Opera album in German (Vanguard), fascinating largely because it shows how difficult it is for vintage rotgut to travel. The "chamber orchestra" of the august Vienna State Opera bravely buckles down to the hurdy...
The tedious life on her husband's sheep ranch in New Zealand's Eglinton Valley gave Mrs. Ruth Chartres a wistful eye for the peaks that towered into the clear air high above her home. She set her heart on mastering Mount Cook, New Zealand's tallest...
For the most part, one of the dominant characteristics of the new young Christians is not their concern with social service but their preoccupation with finding themselves. "Religiously," says Clarence P. Shedd, emeritus professor of Christian methods at Yale, "it is a wistful generation, tired of living on 'snap...