Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...canoe. Totem gods like Killer Whale were sometimes pictured with their entrails revealed to show lesser animals which they had swallowed. Even the massive totem poles were meant as seriously as medieval coats of arms to display family crests and famous ancestors. Such gods as Bear and Wolf might be decorated with fur and shredded cedar-bark wigs. Other masks were provided with movable lower jaws or a concealed inside image...
Bayreuth's Wagner. By comparison with Salzburg's blaze, Bayreuth was authoritative but monochromatic. The latest style for Wagnerian opera, as set by the composer's grandsons Wieland and Wolf gang Wagner (TIME, Aug. 13, 1951, et seq. features a stage in semidarkness, moonlit landscapes, symmetrical crowd scenes and stark emphasis on the polarities of heaven and earth, man and woman, light and darkness, life and death. With their productions of all of Wagner's major works unveiled in previous seasons, the producers this time tried their hand at the youthful but never completely successful Flying...
Schubert. Brahms and Strauss songs, sung by Soprano Kirsten Flagstad (Victor) ; Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, played by members of the Vienna Octet (London) ; Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, narrated by 13-year-old Brandon (Member of the Wedding) de Wilde...
Help Needed. On Friday, March 13, 1936, Reuther married pretty, auburn-haired Mae Wolf, a physical-education instructor whom he met before his European trip. He never wrote to her, but began courting on his return. "On our wedding night," Mrs. Reuther recalls, "we took a drive out of town somewhere. Walter had to make a speech...
...Soto to Tittiwee. Beale Street was a midway of dives, "conjure" doctors, fortune tellers, pawnshops and gambling joints. Colorful riverboat characters jostled streetwalkers, dope peddlers and bug-eyed farm kids who filled it from the De Soto dock* (on the Wolf River just before it joins the Mississippi) to the other end at East Street, a mile away. On Saturday nights the clatter of ragtime music mingled with the wail of ambulances. Its leading citizens have been as bizarre as Beale Street itself: "River George," a giant roustabout of bloody fame; "Tittiwee" and "Black Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall...