Word: golden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons for his firing). But he denied any desire to exchange his present existence as a freelance conductor in Italy for a steady post in Chicago or anywhere else. Said he: "I wouldn't accept a permanent job if they offered it on a golden plate lined with platinum, uranium and cobalt. I want to let them sleep quietly, all those conductors in America with the Fafnir and Fasolt mentality, those dragons that worship gold...
...power of women unleashed since the war, brokers have spread the gospel of manibiru (money building)*all over Japan, display elaborate charts and brochures in remote hamlets to show how buying one $28 bond every month will build to $2,800 in 78 months. Every investment company has its "Golden Tree" or "Millionaire" club, whose members avidly read financial news bulletins, flock to jargon-heavy lectures by female stock-market experts. Companies operate scores of advisory offices in department stores and train stations, where shoppers and commuters can dash in to buy shares in investment trusts promising yields as high...
...understand what that's done to Yale's feelings, the way she looks at herself. We learn that the churches in New Haven have been jammed, remorse frothing from a thousand lips. Liquor sales soared as sullen undergraduates sat limp in their smokefilled digs, drowning the memory of a golden thing they once possessed. Need we mention the fourteen spectacular suicides (one symbolically, a sacrifice on the Bowl flag-pole)? Or the dingy homes of carnality in nearby Bridgeport, where scores of undergraduates sought shoddy release from a fate they found inscrutable? Or the television appeal by President Griswold, imploring...
Will anyone come to the alumni football movies any more? Will this mean I won't get to see Sam and Harry, especially Sam's wife with the golden fuzz on her arms? And what about that deal I was going to push through with George, my own class-mate? How can I reach him any more, what with no way to break the ice? And what about all the other contacts I planned on making...
...Vickers in a new production of Medea (see below). But it also summed up Maria Callas' offstage exchange with a far more improbable Jason-the Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing, who last week stunned the Met's public by casting Maria Callas out of his golden opera house...