Word: woe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City Opera's opening production of Handel's Julius Caesar last week was just minutes old when Contralto Maureen Forrester fixed hand to forehead, shuddered "Woe unto me," and fainted dead away. Contralto roles are like that, full of weeping and despair, the tragic counterweights that support the romantic leads. Forrester, making her U.S. operatic debut, flawlessly performed the role of Cornelia, effortlessly pouring out great billows of plum-shaded singing that served as a lush backdrop for the vocal scrollwork of the other principal singers. Where they thrilled, she caressed. Predictably, the heaviest applause went...
Maureen Forrester didn't mind. She long ago resigned herself to the fact that, woe unto her, the contralto in opera is the unsung singer. Of the precious few roles available to the contralto, most are skimpy caricatures of degenerate kings-roles written in olden times for castrati-or "the other woman." "In opera," she says, "the high-frequency voice has it. A contralto has to sing the whole night before anyone is impressed." It is just as well. Forrester is 5 ft. 9 in. and weighs 180 Ibs.; there are not many male singers who could make...
Within limits, designs vary as widely as money and imagination can make them, and woe betide the skipper of a skow...
...Woe in Rio. The matches began fortnight ago with 16 national teams in the running. By late last week, the only teams with a hope of victory were Britain, Portugal, the Soviet Union and West Germany. To the despair of their supporters, the others had fallen to noisy defeat. The loudest wails came from Brazil, whose team had won the cup in 1958 and 1962. A loss to Portugal became a nationwide calamity. From office buildings in Rio and São Paulo, clouds of black carbon paper and typewriter ribbon cascaded onto the streets below; flags were lowered...
Housing's chief woe, of course, is a shortage of mortgage money more severe than at any time in the past 30 years. It began when the Federal Reserve, to fight inflation, boosted the discount rate last December. It has rapidly worsened in recent weeks as commercial banks have bid up interest rates on savings, thereby luring huge deposits away from such major sources of mortgage loans as savings and loans and mutual-savings banks. For lack of funds, several savings banks in Massachusetts, a traditional source of housing loans for the capital-shy South and West, have stopped...