Word: bidden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...messenger arrives as bidden, with all the papers from London. The Beaver frowns intently through them all, giving special attention to the London Daily Express, the muscular morning giant of 4,300,000 circulation that is the cornerstone of his press combine. Soon the terrace is littered with newsprint that has been studied swiftly and as swiftly discarded. "Vines!" booms Beaver brook, and he begins firing orders to his private secretary at so rapid a rate that Vines, who is a mere mortal of 30 years, cannot keep up and sends for a tape recorder. Then off to London...
...Tycoon Aristotle Onassis-stepped onstage at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, and her audience succumbed to love at first sight. Not so German critics, who ungallantly complained about the sound. "The passion has disappeared," said Die Welt's man on the aisle. "One gets the impression she has bidden farewell to art." Groaned another...
...studied the Toscanini technique. In rehearsal he is still given to shouting Arturo-isms: "Dream with me!" and "Make it barbaric!" The Dustman. When Katims arrived in Seattle in 1954, the city was still trying to forget its last permanent conductor, France's Manuel Rosenthal, who was for bidden re-entry to the U.S. in 1951 for perjuring himself to the effect that the woman traveling with him was his wife...