Word: fellowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...submarine captain (Peck) fall in love. But Greg cannot let himself go with Ava because, even though he knows his wife and kiddies are dead along with everybody else in North America, "I can't accept it." Ava runs off to find consolation with a scientist fellow (Fred Astaire). "I have nobody," she sobs. "I'm afraid...
...near. People start dropping like flies, or so the spectator gathers. Actually, only one case of radiation sickness is shown, and the only symptom indicated is a thermometer in the fellow's mouth. Presently the government passes out some lethal pills, and the populace meekly lies down to die-off-screen...
...conductor, seated at the Baldwin in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, looked at the greying, dignified man on his left and the professional fellow in horn-rimmed glasses on his right, both seated at Stein-ways. Then Leonard Bernstein launched his assembled forces into Bach's Concerto in C for Three Pianos. A part of last week's special Bach Christmas program by the New York Philharmonic, the concerto was ably executed, drew enthusiastic applause and an extra bow by the performers. The odd thing about the performance: Bernstein's fellow pianists had never before played...
...Bernstein put such distinguished nonprofessionals on his program? "Christmas family spirit," said Lenny. Each man had the background to make the party a serious success. Manager Moseley studied piano under famed Teacher Olga Samaroff, was a fellow student of Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood in 1941. Later, Moseley spent five years (1950-55) as director of the School of Music at the University of Oklahoma. Sugar Baron Keiser, Harvard '27, won a Juilliard scholarship after graduation, studied piano under Ernest Hutcheson before he took over the family business (Cuban-American Sugar Co.). Keiser still gives concerts near his home...
...dominates this book. There are the Addisonian "Silence Dogood" letters with their gently satiric barbs at Harvard College, bits of local gossip, humorous anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay on the value of a paper currency. In the profoundest sense, Franklin began a lifelong dialogue with his fellow Americans on their democratic destiny ("In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own"). But entertainment always had priority on instruction. None of the humor would draw a belly laugh today, though it was probably uproarious...