Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history and nearly 25% bigger than the last, spending-spree budget of President (1950-56) Manuel Odría, whom Candidate Prado had lambasted as a spendthrift. Old Soldier Odría was often accused of lavishing the taxpayers' soles on the armed forces just to keep the brass contented, but Old (67) Civilian Prado outdid him. Prado upped the army's share 10%, the air force's 75%, the navy's 98%. The civilian ministries, too, got raises...
...Editor Bergaust: the "Jupiter C," a three-stage rocket test device, whooshed from its Florida launching site in September, streaked an astounding 3,300 miles, reaching an altitude of 680 miles at 15,000 m.p.h.-higher and faster and possibly farther than any missile has ever before flown. Pentagon brass studiously avoided comment about Bergaust's disclosure...
...Seen That!" With Thomas Cole's founding of the "Hudson River School." the emphasis in U.S. art shifted from people to nature. Cole's Arcadian views, seemingly observed through a dusty brass telescope, opened the way for a score of great artists who wedded themselves to the infinitely various U.S. landscape. Then, in the supposedly materialistic era following the Civil War, three titans loomed on the horizon of U.S. art, as they still do today: Ryder, Homer and Eakins. Ryder saw life as something of a dream, Homer as a struggle, and Eakins as a solemn commitment. Each...
...five years Financier Leopold Dias Silberstein, 52, has swept up 20 companies into his Penn-Texas Corp., sometimes by stock swaps after a tough proxy fight. Last week, driving for his biggest prize of all, Chicago heavy-equipment maker Fairbanks, Morse & Co. (TIME, March 12), Silberstein ran into a brass-knuckled pier 6 brawl. The opposition came not from Fairbanks, Morse but from within Silberstein's own camp. In a New York Federal Court, dissident stockholders demanded an accounting of Silberstein's management...
...easy work to perform, and there were some decidedly rough spots, but the general spirit was strong, and for much of the time the Orchestra's tone was surprisingly good. Piston's mastery of orchestral effect was in evidence throughout the Symphony, and some of the brass writing is unsurpassed anywhere. The first movement is a highpoint in modern music, with widely contrasting themes of great drive and of great beauty. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, despite some fine playing in this work, will have to improve its string section before it can give a completely successful concert...