Word: autocrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloomy autocrat, Bodanzky drove every performance he conducted with a tight rein, lashed world-famed tenors and sopranos at rehearsals with a hot tongue ("Who told you you could sing?"). When he was feeling impatient he would sometimes drag a performance over the jumps as if he were rushing for a train. But when Artur Bodanzky felt just right, he could drive a pack of Valkyries through the Nibelung clouds like Wotan himself...
...affairs. When he appointed executives, he is reputed to have made them give him undated resignations. When he wanted to tell them something, he called them to him, whether he was in his office or at his Gull Lake estate. Last week, however, it appeared that the autocrat of the breakfast foods, 79, had picked his successor...
...Instructors John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy two years ago to Art Instructor Robin D. Feild last spring. Basic reason for the firings was a slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed Dr. Conant was bent on getting crack research men instead of crack teachers, because he hired big-name scholars at fancy salaries while he let brilliant young instructors of undergraduates...
Last week kindly, greying Commissioner George Lyndon Carpenter, 67, Australian-born head of the Army's work in Canada, whom Bramwell Booth demoted a year before he was deposed, was elected the Army's fifth General. No autocrat, General Carpenter promised to appoint a council of advisers. Said he: "If I ever get to the stage of refusing to listen to advice I hope the Army will ask me to retire-and will see to it that...
...main emphasis of his Holmes of the Breakfast-Table is on Holmes as a forerunner of the moderns-the cool-headed doctor who not only wrote a medical classic on puerperal fever, but occasionally, as in Elsie Venner, anticipated Freud; the science popularizer whose Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table came nearer to Darwin than to the Transcendentalists; the author of The Professor, the awkward but potent anti-Calvinist Babbitt...