Word: glimmered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of their first years together were spent writing special material for nightclub acts and TV shows (e.g., Stop the Music}. The first glimmer of bigger success came when Songwriter Frank (Guys and Dolls}) Loesser decided they were a promising team, and signed them up for his new publishing house. Among their 150-odd songs: last winter's hit, Rags to Riches, seven numbers for John Murray Anderson's Almanac...
...Glimmer of Hope. Sales at the picketed establishments are off an estimated 30%, but profits have not dropped proportionately because high delivery costs have been all but eliminated. (The Home Co. reported a record...
This week some Pittsburghers thought they detected a glimmer of hope. It looked as if Dave Beck himself might intercede. Beck, who prides himself on running his union like a big business (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not sanction the Pittsburgh walkout and has refused benefits to the strikers. Officially, he said only that he would move in "at the right time," and colleagues said the dispute was not the kind of strike Beck thought served the cause of labor. Said Teamster Beck: "I refused to sanction the strike before it started, and I don't condone it any more...
...afraid for America," Jungk writes in his last chapter, "afraid of its losing the best of itself, the esteem for freedom and humanity, in the struggle for nearly godlike omnipotence." Only at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton did he find a glimmer of hope. There someone told him: "All that you've seen in America ... is not what is to come but what is already passing." "So you don't think the future will be simply an intensification of this alarming present?" asked Jungk. "No," replied his mentor. "In spite of everything, there is hope...
...weak and half-hearted reversion to an old musical style and form and Mr. Bavicchi by an aggressive rejection of the ideals of melodic and textural beauty evolved in the subsequent history of this style. Such a rejection is of course not uncommon in contemporary music but some glimmer of compensation is expected in such cases. I saw none in Mr. Bavicchi's Sonata for Two Pianos. Passages of elementary and conventional sentimentality were occasionally introduced only to be brutally transformed into sequences of unrelenting harshness. Abrupt shifts of mood and rhythm marked no inventive richness; rather, they seemed indicative...