Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drum did not decline unnoticed, however, Guide Cautelli, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony asked to use the drum last month--for Verdi's Requiem. Now, the instrument will get a requiem of its own, from the Band. Nothing morbid or elaborate, you understand, but "winter green...
Someone read a telegram from President Pusey. The master of ceremonies finally stood up to introduce the guest of honor. "There isn't much that I 'can add to what has already been said," he understated. He gave White an engraved watch. White spoke quietly and modestly. He said that he considered himself "the luckiest person in the world...
...life,' and so on, constantly varying the phrase, which was always full of feeling." Visitors from abroad were entertained there as well: Francisco de Miranda from South America, "martyr to the cause of which Bolivar was the hero," finished his tour of Harvard in the Wadsworth dining room, the guest of President Willard whom he found "lean, austere, and of an insufferable circumspection...
Tinker's article drew more mail than anything Maclean's has published in years. Surprisingly, half the letters agreed with Tinker in deploring the growth of such carping anti-Americanism. More support for Tinker came last week in a guest editorial written for Maclean's by Author Hugh (The Precipice) MacLennan. "Mr. Tinker has hit nearly all of us where it hurts," MacLennan wrote. "We're chagrined and a little ashamed of ourselves...
...urge. By one estimate, just two Americans made a living by poetry in the early 1950s-Robert Frost and Ogden Nash. But Frost has also taught and lectured. And Nash says: "You can make a living as a poet if you are also a panelist on Masquerade Party, make guest appearances on other TV shows, and write lyrics for a successful Broadway show." Visible Ghosts. Ultimately, the economic condition of the author is shaped by the publishers. The firms are still on the lookout for the magically popular novel, but advances are smaller than ten years ago (average...