Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played in last fall's crisis of conscience brought on by Governor Orval Faubus' defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's integration order. Ashmore was cited for his editorials, the Gazette "for demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership, journalistic responsibility and moral courage in the face of mounting public tension." Wrote the judges: "The newspaper's fearless and completely objective news coverage, plus its reasoned and moderate policy, did much to restore calmness and order to an overwrought community...
Maverick. In the tradition-filigreed world of highbrow music, the Texas longhair is a maverick who conforms to nobody's image of a virtuoso. His family has been American on both sides for at least four generations. His pale baby face, with its cornflower-blue eyes beneath a tangle of yellow hair, might suggest a choir boy-which he has been. He is exuberantly gregarious, unsophisticated and, on the surface at least, totally untempera-mental. Former Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Thor Johnson recalls that once, in an orchestral tutti during the rehearsal of a concerto, Van rose from the keyboard...
...degree angle, his body leaning far back from the keys. In lyric passages he shakes his head from side to side in a kind of slow frenzy at the grip of the music upon him. In the more fiery passages he crouches close over the keys, his face scowling, his elbows jutting far behind him, like the legs of a praying mantis. When the orchestra is playing alone, he eyes the conductor with mounting eagerness, works his shoulders, finally addresses himself to the piano with the gawky excitement of a colt...
...says. "It's a pleasure to work with them." His satisfactions come from such cases as that of the 15-year-old girl who fell into despair when her twelve-year-old sister began menstruating before she did. Her turn would come. Roth gently reassured her. Recently, her face beaming, she collared him at the clinic. "Dr. Roth," she yelled. "I've had it!" That, says he, was as rewarding as delivering a new baby...
...Visit brought the Lunts to Broadway-for a rumored final visit to Broadway-in a theater piece of strikingly acrid power. Adapted by Maurice Valency from the German of Swiss Playwright Friedrich Düurrenmatt, The Visit begins in light colors and comedy guise, suddenly to darken the face of its canvas, to blacken the hearts of its characters. A grisly fable of a woman's vengeful hate, it shows a whole community relentlessly succumbing to greed...