Word: awash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself. Martin missed a connection in London and arrived at Villa Fielding a day late. "I got there in the middle of a luncheon Nancy Fielding and her husband had arranged for the TIME team," says Martin. "Our correspondent, Gavin Scott, and Photographer Ben Martin were already there, awash in the famed Fielding charm. I had to keep reminding myself that however much we liked him, we also had to evaluate his book." For Martin, the most memorable moment of the visit was reached at dinner, when Fielding proposed a toast. The convivial host explained that...
Raising Doubts. The accusations hit Wall Street at a time when it is already awash in problems. The stock exchanges are battling the Government in defense of their lucrative but controversial system of fixed minimum commissions. As part of an eight-month effort to unsnarl the paperwork jam that has slowed brokers' back-office operations, the exchanges and over-the-counter market last week decided to remain on a four-day trading week throughout September. Beyond all that, the Merrill Lynch case is clearly Wall Street's newest, worst nightmare, if only because it is bound to raise...
...many pressures have converged on stock prices that few brokers last week foresaw much chance of a quick rebound, though fewer still expected the slide to grow into a severe plunge. "The market is awash in a sea of doubt," said Vice President Robert T. Allen of the Manhattan firm of Shearson, Hammill. Along with the prospect of an economic slowdown because of the 10% income tax surcharge, there were worries over declining profits, falling interest rates (which help to suck investable funds back into bonds), and reduced business spending on expansion. With many big institutional traders sitting...
...observers, disturbed by what they took to be ominous portents for Wolfgang's-and Bayreuth's-artistic future, waited anxiously for his new production this year of Die Meistersinger. The work's chauvinism and its basis in medieval history had traditionally called forth productions that were awash with romanticist naturalism-gingerbread houses, magical forests and peasant maids. Wieland Wagner twice tried to replace all this with fresh approaches. In 1956, he staged the work as a spare, poetically brooding vision, in 1963, as an authentic but highly mannered recreation of Shakespearean theater...
...translated the 12th century Persian poem The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam. He condensed, combined and reshuffled the stanzas, dropping what did not suit him and pumping in generous transfusions of his own sentimental, post-Darwin fatalism. The result is one of the enduring minor poems of the language-awash with fanciful exoticism, vivid and resonant. But scholars have been scandalized by the liberties that FitzGerald took with the original, and for a century have tried in vain to supplant his version with more literal renderings...