Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar popularity of the German art song. On his U.S. tours, he has held audiences rapt through the whole of Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise and through the complete Schumann Dichterliebe. He has reached an even wider public through his 40-odd LP recordings, including Hugo Wolf's 16 Songs, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Brahms's German Requiem, albums of Mahler songs...
...Tingling Blasts. There are showier, more opulent-sounding baritones than Fischer-Dieskau. But there are no singers about nowadays who use their voices with more intelligence, accuracy or theatrical effect. Fischer-Dieskau never uses his texts as excuses for mere vocal gymnastics. In the art songs of Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, he sings his way into moods alternately tragic, boisterous and nostalgic with subtle modulations of his dry, husky voice. And when at climactic moments he throws his baritone out in a high, ringing fortissimo, the effect is as spine-tingling as a trumpet blast...
...truism of liberal democracy that a minority party should play the critic for the political drama. Yet even gadflies lose their sting when they run away from politics, sit dumbly as the majority perpetrates folly, or cry wolf long after the sheep have been killed. From now until 1960, Bowles maintains, the Deemocrats must persistently repudiate the Administration's blunders in foreign and domestic affairs with eloquence and determination, yet at the same time set forth constructive, intelligent, and fore-sighted alternatives...
...Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf (ABC) proved to be one of the most engaging shows ever to be seen on TV. Actor Carney was fine as a new character in the old fairy tale, but the wonder of the hour-long show was Bil and Cora Baird's 50 animal puppets, who achieved something rare-a fairy tale mixed with true gaiety, a child's world edged by real irony. That was the spirit, too, of Ogden Nash's lyrics, notably in the wolf's lament ("Aesop launched the slander/ I should have eaten Aesop...
Reporting on studies at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Stewart Wolf summed up: "We have found that the man likely to have a heart attack is highly competitive in his attitudes, if not in his behavior; concerned with self-sufficiency and with doing things on his own-and usually the hard way. Looking for new worlds to conquer, he takes less than the usual satisfaction from achievement, and especially he has no time to enjoy satisfaction between chores...