Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentration camp" at Kennedy Stadium, but people who were said it was pretty brutal. Yet to call it a concentration camps is to evoke Dachau and Auschwitz, but the government is not yet there, and to evoke images as if it were is to cheapen language, to cry "wolf." And the left should let the destruction of sense in language remain with Nixon; let him call fighting a war "ensuring the peace" and an invasion an "incursion" and let us say what we mean so plainly and truthfully that people will know the difference...
...Punctuality," said Louis XVIII, "is the politeness of kings." Kennedys are not kings-as no one in Bonn last week needed reminding. On tour with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Teddy Kennedy and his wife Joan (who narrates Peter and the Wolf), seemed to be late everywhere they went. Joan kept Mayor Peter Kramer and the fire department band cooling their heels for 45 minutes at the City Hall. Joan was at least an hour late for U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush's cocktail party. Joan was two hours late for the party given by West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel...
Schonberg further observed that "when one wolf starts howling, like Franco Corelli in Verdi's 'Di quella pira' from 11 Trovatore, the rest of the wolves join in, as in the choral sections of 'Di quella pira.' " He found that the best wolf virtuosos "start pianissimo, swell to a messa di voce to the sixth above, hold it sweetly and purely, then perhaps embellish to the upper partial before going down to a pianissimo and trailing off on an inconclusive microtonality near the tonic." Although some wolves have a range of more than an octave...
Story finished, Schonberg treated startled staffers in the Times city room to a few tenor and bass wolf howls of his own. Not bad,Gelb noted...
...past 15 years has been made in and around New York, the city provides few spaces where it can be viewed in proper perspective. Now private initiative is making up for public failure. In front of Hammarskjold Plaza, its new office block on Second Avenue at 47th Street, Wolf & Macklowe, a New York real estate firm, has created a sculpture garden for rotating displays of sculptures too large to be exhibited elsewhere. "I told the city," says Harry Macklowe, 33, "that I'd bear all the expenses for installing it, maintenance, and the rest. It's a gift...