Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Always on the alert for some way to widen his scope, Rapp spotted Prokofiev's left-hand concerto on a list, wrote to his widow in Moscow to ask her for the score. As the music was heard in Berlin last week (with the Metropolitan Opera's Martin Rich conducting), it no longer seemed aggressively modern, as it had to Wittgenstein, but more like an old friend. The whole piece is sprayed with crotchety harmonies, but it always makes the kind of leeway towards a safe harmonic port that is part of Prokofiev's charm. The solo...
...their share of beats; CBS cut off Sherman Adams (who had just addressed himself to the "millions watching TV") to bring viewers an absorbing, technically brilliant scene from inside the airport control tower and a radarscope-view of Ike's Columbine winging toward the city. Equally expert and alert, NBC's mobile unit rode herd on the President's motorcade all the way to the St. Francis Hotel downtown. Next day NBC beat the other webs to the President's first "live" press conference (film versions of White House conferences are skillfully edited...
...three major networks called out their stables of old, reliable stars, and laid on a couple of new ones. CBS's veteran Walter Cronkite. working his familiar anchor spot, gave the most informed, alert and consistently lucid commentary, held up best under the week's strain. His biggest coup: getting Ave Harriman inside the fishbowl to exchange blessings with Estes Kefauver on a split-screen hookup (denounced as "electronic fakery" by rival ABC). CBS's seasoned twosome of Ed Murrow and Eric Severeid was seen only fleetingly, bantering the big picture with the casualness of network executives...
...modern Lancet is less angry−principally because most of the reforms it advocated have been put into effect− it is nonetheless outspoken and alert. In 1952, a few days after King George VI of Great Britain died, the Lancet frankly discussed the King's ailments (Buerger's disease, lung cancer and arteriosclerosis) and the immediate cause of his death (coronary thrombosis). It has also reported candidly about the low standards of general practice under the British National Health Service, about bad conditions in mental hospitals, about the problems of the aged...
...just the opposite. At Walter Reed [the U.S. Army Hospital in Washington] we swim sprints all the time. That way every swimmer gets her second wind every practice. Of course it's harder work, but it isn't as boring, and it keeps their minds more alert. I guess they hit three or four good peaks a year and then hold them for a week or so. With all the time between now and Melbourne, it'll be no problem to get them all to a peak for that...