Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with the task of making his voice heard over the thunder of events in the Middle East and Hungary, he lashed out with mounting violence against the President and his Administration. The at tack reached its peak on the day before the election in Minneapolis and again that night in Boston. Harshly, he charged that Dwight Eisenhower neither knows nor cares what goes on about him in Washington, that he "holds forth in the pulpit while his choirboys sneak around back alleys with sandbags." He described Richard Nixon's campaign role as that...
...brain threw caution to the winds. The Eisenhower landslide, it ground out, would reach "the proportions of President Roosevelt's first victory in 1932." At 10 o'clock Adlai Stevenson, busily writing in his room, was quoted as saying that he would not concede until he had heard from California. Said Adlai's sister, Mrs. Ernest Ives: "It's a pathetic situation...
...energetic Met production, robust Tenor Mario del Monaco as Norma's lover sang loud enough to be heard from Gaul to Rome, and Mezzo-Soprano Fedora Barbieri, as Norma's rival, was adequate though often wobbly. Since she looks much the way Callas did before her celebrated slimming down, it was hard to see why the Roman governor would prefer her to Norma. But none of this mattered much with Callas on stage. As an actress, unlike most of her competitors, Callas radiates credibility even in the silliest situations. Her performance is not a mere recital with costumes...
Boston critics were as ecstatic as the audience. The Herald's Rudolph Elie called it "one of those magical revelations that occurs in music once in a generation . . . the most beautiful performance of Beethoven's Third Concerto I ever heard or expect to hear again...
...only talk about the situation in Hungary and elsewhere to others, but be ready to volunteer and fight, if necessary, to secure the liberties of our fellowman, though they might be 4,000 miles away. Anyone who heard or read the urgent radio appeals from Hungary last Saturday night would be callous indeed, were he not ready to strike a blow for freedom now, even if he has been in Korea or in a concentration camp aboad during World War II. Refugees streaming into Austria from Hungary, asked this...