Word: displays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composed and carefully groomed, Premier Félix Gaillard rose from his front-row chair in France's National Assembly last week and assured his countrymen that the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef constituted a display of "exemplary patience." By the time Gaillard spoke, dozens of foreign diplomats and journalists had visited Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef and confirmed Tunisian reports that a high percentage of the 209 casualties (79 dead, 130 wounded) inflicted by the French air force were women and children. Blandly ignoring these facts, Gaillard insisted that "the majority of the victims were soldiers of the Algerian F.L.N...
...More Natural Union." There was none of the wild display of popular joy in Jordan last week that followed the unity proclamation in Cairo and Damascus. Yet, said an Iraqi leader: "This is the more natural union." Iraq and Jordan go together geographically, historically, and even-because Iraq has the oil wealth and the living space to absorb Jordan's refugees-economically...
...From the display in Red Square and intelligence reports come these minimum estimates of Russian equipment...
...critics by Reporter Martin Agronsky on NBC-TV's Look Here show, Bernstein replied: "I have come to take them not very seriously any more. When you do get mad at a critic is when he is a self-advertised authority and at the same rime proceeds to display ignorance, making mistakes, showing he doesn't have ears to hear with...
...singing flat in their first-act duet in La Traviata (TIME, Feb. 17). The pitch was dropping so fast at one point, Critic Lang had written, that it seemed as if the singers were about to land in the conductor's lap. Bernstein's complaint about this display of "great authority and chilling wit": Barioni was indeed off key, but he was sharping, not flatting. "Here is a critic who heard a man singing too low when 3,000 people were ... in the Metropolitan Opera House hearing him singing too high . . . Now the first thing you would expect...