Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bayreuth had not dared do Tannhäuser since Toscanini's unforgettable version 24 years ago. But brothers Wieland and Wolfgang, who will dare anything, decided the old Venusberg needed some drastic new landscaping. They hired fast-rising, Kiev-born Conductor Igor Markevitch, who had never done Wagnerian opera before, then replaced him with Germany's Joseph Keilberth. "I was not aware that anybody here was interested in tempo," huffed Markevitch at one point. "All they talk about is lighting"-and no wonder, for Director Wieland Wagner's new staging relies mainly on light effects. When...
...would be given a "high diplomatic post." This done, the Mendès-France government, on its own, banned the Communist Bastille Day parade. Though he was being kicked upstairs, Baylot was not disturbed. Said he: "We have broken the back of the Communist Party here. They would not dare stage a big demonstration now." His parting gift last week came, ironically, from the Communists: not only did L'Humanité lose its suit against him, but it was ordered to pay Baylot 300,000 francs ($857) for "the offensive character of its unfounded assertions...
...recovery: the Chicago Tribune, which barked at the White House all the time Truman lived there, now said: "There are a lot of things wrong with Harry Truman, but there always was more candor, less hypocrisy, and more natural man in his words and behavior than most politicians would dare display...
...witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee, meeting in Seattle last week, charged that Eugene V. Dennett was a member of the Communist Party until he was expelled in 1947 as a Trotskyite. The same year, Dennett told reporters, he took up knitting on a dare from his wife...
...task not to produce safe men, in whom our safety can not in any case lie, but to keep alive in young people the desire to dare to seek the truth, to be free, to establish in them a compelling desire to live greatly and magnanimously, and to give them the knowledge and awareness, the faith and the trained facility to get on with...