Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the past year, Withrop has emerged as a strong force in the politic- ian-breeding field, supplying two out of three Class of 1949 marchals and four out of ten permanent committeemen. Its more internationally-minded members have entertained visiting firemen in quantity from Amsterdam and other faraway places, and rumors of a resident Eskimo, through probably exaggerated, are not entirely unfounded in fact...
...years of experimenting, Cage has managed to weld together ten works (Construction in Metal, Second Construction, etc.) for pipe-length, brake-drum orchestras, and, with six different "preparations," nine major works for piano. Necessarily expressionistic, one of his sonatas last week moved the New York Times to get a faraway look in its good, grey eyes: "The fourteenth sonata . . . suggested burro's hoofs on far-off cobbles, while a gentle church bell sounded sadly in the distance...
Since that faraway day more than half-a-century ago, Brown victories over Harvard are about as rare as the visiting French professor who a few years ago didn't turn in final grades to University Hall; and, as you know, when notified in Paris of his error, cabled back to give everybody A's because he enjoyed the class so much...
Harry Bridges' long nose was caught in a wringer last week. He had shut down the West Coast waterfront for more than 45 days. He had choked off business in faraway Hawaii, smothered the West Coast's trade with Alaska, had tied up 222 of the coast's 375 ships, costing shippers and shipowners millions of dollars a day. The strike was another dramatic show of power by U.S. labor's second most recalcitrant leader (after John Lewis). But last week Harry Bridges was hollering for help...
...Most. . . are so busy that they stay in their offices, read the headlines, and say what they can about the news. No wonder the product is often dreary." Considering the pressures against them, it was also no wonder, he said, that many ducked local controversies and took refuge in faraway topics...