Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glorious instrument he has heard in his inner ear all his life. Szell still works tirelessly, training young conductors, learning new scores. His pedagoguery is perfectly undiminished: he gives golf lessons to golfers who play better, teaches tailors how to cut his tails so that the coat will not flap while he conducts: tight armholes, ballooning sleeves...
Surprised? When the questions began, Kennedy was asked about the flap over Adlai Stevenson's position in the Cuban crisis decisions. The President pleasantly dodged: "I would not attempt to describe, verify, or in any way discuss the position that any member of the National Security Council has taken." Pushed for comment on the responsibility of the Saturday Evening Post article that claimed Stevenson wanted "a Munich," the President scattered more peace on earth: "I would not attempt to characterize writers of this article or any other." Only once did Kennedy show any sign of irritation. When pressed...
Only in the light of that relationship does last week's flap take on major political meaning. The antagonisms between Kennedy and Stevenson date back to the 1956 Democratic Convention, when Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy placed in nomination the name of Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Kennedy then thought he had Stevenson's backing for the vice-presidential nomination. But Stevenson threw the nomination open to all aspirants; Kennedy was forced to fight for it -and just barely lost to Estes Kefauver...
...Kennedy wrote Stevenson a "Dear Adlai" letter that, without undercutting Bartlett and Alsop, expressed "regret at the unfortunate stir" and "fullest confidence" in Stevenson. Toward week's end, while introducing the President at a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation dinner, Master of Ceremonies Stevenson joked about the whole flap. Introducing Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver as an "instant peace" salesman so successful that "he makes the United Nations cry for it," Stevenson quipped: "As for me. I've been crying for it for the past week." Adlai quoted Joseph Pulitzer's observation, "Accuracy is to a newspaper...
...with sets and costumes by Designer Robert O'Hearn, took a different tack-and was far more successful. The soaring stone columns and arches of St. Catherine's Church in Act I looked enduringly solid-a far cry from the standard productions in which they tend to flap and billow like a clothesline of wet wash. The steeply gabled gingerbread houses of Nürnberg in Act II looked as though they had been rooted to the Met's stage for a hundred years. Visually and vocally, Die Meistersinger was as successful a new production...