Word: exigente
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The dynastic rivalries among the Army, Navy and Air Force after World War II prompted President Truman to unify the services under a Secretary of Defense. Old Soldier Eisenhower stripped the individual service secretaries of their power to deploy troops. Later, the exigent Robert McNamara took command of all departmental...
But it's pretty soporific going. The Yearbook mistakes leaden prose for weighty thought. Sample insight: "The exigencies of the moment make-speculation about the future seem superfluous." Yeah, guys, it's been exigent.
"Exigent Mistress." Eugène Delacroix burst upon Paris at the age of 24 when he exhibited in the Salon his tortured scene of hell, Dante and Virgil. The painting was viciously attacked by some of the critics, but the government of France bought it all the same-a purchase...
In his famous Journal, Delacroix records a number of love affairs, but the only one that lasted was with his "exigent mistress," painting. Wherever he looked-into an overcast sky, at a news item about a Turkish massacre, into the fragile face of his friend Chopin, or even into his...
For bumptious James Caesar Petrillo, exigent czar of U.S. musicians, it was a week of unparalleled tributes. From Toledo came flattering news: somebody was going around representing himself as Petrillo. In Hollywood, movie magnates cheerfully upped his studio musicians' pay by 33% (previous annual wage: $5,200), agreed to...