Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when one comes down to this bedrock, it may be expected that the West will show a heartening degree of unity; few, even among the Bevanites, the German Social-Democrats and the French neutralists, really want to see the Americans retire to Kansas while the Russians retain their grip on Eastern Europe. Western leadership, then, faces a dual task. The point has to be patiently and consistently put across to the Russians that NATO and all other arrangements under which American forces provide a shield for smaller countries are vital to western defense (and to defense only). Meanwhile the western...
...does Giorgio sometimes talk to the birds and the bees; he lives in a monastery cell, and often gives the clothes from his back, the food from his plate and money from his flat purse to the poor (TIME, June 7). A Christian Democrat, he broke the Reds' grip on the Florence city administration four years ago. Some of his fellow Christian Democrats, however, shudder at where his charitable philosophy sometimes takes...
Unchanging as always, however, is that Word of Cheer passed from one friend to the other before the grip of schedule and test tightens again. Although the snow may have at first frightened the Spring Term optimist, awakened like the Freshman who has overslept an exam, he is now reassured and ready to pass along advice. The new term does, in fact, promise more than the resulting slush and returned exams. If all goes well, there will be as many disarmament plans as there are new atomic weapons, and Marlon Brando will not sell his motorcycle. In all events...
First Fan. Once before and once shortly after she left dramatic school, Grace turned down $250-a-week movie contracts: "I didn't want to be just another starlet." Now Hollywood reached for her again but failed to get a firm grip...
...night five years ago, when young Thomas Schippers was conducting Menotti's The Consul on Broadway, he got so excited that the baton slipped from his fingers and sailed over his shoulder into the audience. Since then, Conductor Schippers (pronounced shippers) has kept a firm grip on his baton, earned resounding kudos for his performances at the New York City Opera, guest stints with symphony orchestras, and this season, for another Menotti opera, The Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week Kalamazoo-born Conductor Schippers, 24, won his golden operatic spurs: the Metropolitan Opera signed...