Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concerted Effort. In St. Louis, Organist Frederico Aquardo sang two solos, played the wedding march, hurried down from the loft to be bridegroom...
...Better than the play, said some British critics of Sir Laurence Olivier's most recent Shakespearean effort: 1. Hamlet. 2. Richard III. 3. Macbeth. 4. Henry VIII. 5. Love's Labour's Lost...
...other tried to stake out claims in the no-man's-lands between front lines. Each side would be entitled to stand fast on what it held for the month of peace-if it lasted that long. The most important pre-truce drive was an unsuccessful Israeli effort to reopen the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Anticipating failure, the Jews had hacked a primitive trail through the hills south of the main road. There mule trains, jeeps, and slogging men kept a trickle of supplies flowing into Jerusalem. A Jewish commander called it "our Burma Road...
...Interior Secretary Harold Ickes followed this pattern as he began describing "My Twelve Years with F.D.R." in the Saturday Evening Post. He took a wallop at Harry Hopkins' WPA: "[Harry] was not priming the pump; he was just turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that he won't do to advance...
...music festival where Stravinsky was the guest of honor. What's more, the area around the Still concert was roped off to traffic because of some relay races at the nearby Coliseum. Conditions were not ideal for a premiere, but listeners who struggled in found it worth the effort...