Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...churches," declared Dulles, "have played a notable part in changing the attitudes of our people . . ." It was Christian leadership, he said, that committed the U.S. to helping weaker nations (e.g., the Marshall Plan), while it permitted a big stick to enforce a just and Christian peace in the world. "And if, over the past three years, our nation has dealt with the Soviet Union on a basis that has been firm but that, for the most part, avoided provocation, it is largely because our Christian people have, on the one hand, seen the danger lying behind beguiling Communist propaganda...
Last week, in the first big retrospective show of Bloom's work ever held, there was plenty to look at besides painted corpses. Visitors at Boris Mirski's Boston gallery could see encrusted oils of blazing chandeliers, Christmas trees ribboned with light, melancholy rabbis and bold abstractions that have contributed to Bostonian Bloom's slowly growing reputation. Nonetheless, the five most discussed paintings in the show seemed to come straight from charnel house and morgue...
...President Niles Trammell had a job of explaining to do. In recent months, CBS had charmed away five of his top attractions (Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra, Edgar Bergen), beat him to a big sixth (Bing Crosby). NBC had lost talent to Columbia before, but never in such great clumps. The network's 164 affiliated stations were uneasy and fidgety...
...past ten years, a slim, long-faced cockney girl with big blue eyes and a big blue voice has been the queen of England's popular singers. By last week, Vera Lynn's voice was being heard across the U.S. - and if she wasn't yet the queen of U.S. singers, she was at least high on the list of ladies in waiting...
...first lap of her second U.S. tour (she sang Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter last season), Kathleen finds she has little time now for anything but singing. After her U.S. tour there are two other big engagements on her schedule: 1) Amsterdam, where she will sing Orfeo again with San Francisco's Pierre Monteux conducting, 2) the Edinburgh Festival, where her old coach, Bruno Walter, has promised to be at the piano to accompany her recital...