Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clare Boothe Luce paid tribute of a sort to Eleanor Roosevelt, another writer, by urging her on the Democrats as their ideal candidate for Vice President. Her theory: Harry Truman might well ride into a new term on Eleanor Roosevelt's coattails. "I dare to suggest this winning formula to the Democrats," the Republican ex-Congresswoman concluded, "because it is almost certain that, being men first and Democrats second, they will not have the courage, vision or intelligence to adopt...
Brahms: A German Requiem (Eleanor Steber, soprano; James Pease, bass; the RCA Victor Chorale and Symphony, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 18 sides). Brahms avoided the traditional liturgy, chose his own excerpts from the Bible "because I am a musician and because I needed them." Finished eight years before his first symphony (and foreshadowing it), this was the first composition to win him wide fame. Its moments of beauty more than make up for its minutes of tedium. Performance: good...
Academic freedom shivered a little in the anti-Communist wind: ¶A New York State Supreme Court justice ordered the Buffalo school board to reinstate Teacher Eleanor Dushane, and give her $1,000 in back pay. Principal Charles J. Costello of Buffalo's East High had charged the fortyish schoolmarm with insubordination, subversive activity and inefficiency. Her real offense: posting a classroom notice of a lecture by PM Pundit Max Lerner...
Edward D. McDougal III '48 captured the George B. Schier Prize of $250 for an essay entitled "The Ideal of Neo-classic Poetic Diction: Translation and the Homeric Model." Honorable mention went to Eleanor M. Millard, Radcliffe '48, Richard Haven '50, and Arthur W. J. Becker...
There are appropriate performances by Sydney Greenstreet as a mesmerist, blackmailer and general mastermind; Agnes Moorehead as his ruined wife; John Abbott as her twitchy brother; John Emery as an assistant scoundrel; and decorative performances by Alexis Smith as the heroine and Eleanor Parker (the woman of the title) in a double role. It is almost impossible to be frightened by the picture, but everybody involved seems to "savor" the period, as if it were fine old brandy. The brandy isn't as good as all that, but the savor is pleasant in an old-fashioned sort...