Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conducted almost entirely with his left, pulling the orchestra as if the musicians were marionettes on a hundred invisible strings. With his left hand shaking, soothing, plucking, dancing, he shaped phrases, tossed cues, whipped his men to new intensities. What he did above all was to keep an inexorable grip on the tempo and rhythm, and, never aiming at stunts, he tried to speak with Beethoven's voice. He succeeded perhaps better than any other living conductor...
Harvard's hope rests on possibilities. One, that Princeton, like Harvard against underdog Penn last week, will loose its grip long enough to let in a few too many goals. The second, and slightly more probable possibility, is that Harvard may manage to pull together for the afternoon to play an entire game of the first-class soccer they have exhibited occasionally, notably against Dartmouth...
...Victorian touch--"highest morals"--still holds onto the magazine, but there are evidences that its grip is less strong than it once...
Russia was in the grip of Asian flu last week. Word filtered through the Soviet censorship that the widespread epidemic has hit the great cities of western Russia as well as towns in Siberia and the Caucasus. Leningrad was reported to have closed all schools for the first ten grades. In Moscow 500 doctors plus extra nurses and medical students were assigned to hospital duty. Vaccine, though claimed to be effective, was admittedly scarce; medical workers had top priority; next, those in transportation and communications...
...Hollywood's infirm old lion, Loew's Inc., owners of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, outvoted the forces of Millionaire Canadian Contractor Joseph Tomlinson, Loew's biggest (5%) and unhappiest stockholder. By 3,449,446 ballots to 519,435, shareholders gave President Joseph R. Vogel a solid grip on his board of directors by increasing its membership from 13 to 19. Then they voted in nine management nominees to fill ten empty seats (including four recent resignations). The tenth seat fell to the management's critics, who put all their cumulative votes behind Veteran Movie Executive...