Word: highe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct result of the Nixon party's tour of the Soviet Union and Poland, some new assumptions are bound to be cranked into high-level U.S. policy decisions. Among the assumptions, as pieced together by TIME'S White House Correspondent Charles Mohr, who traveled with the Nixon party...
Politics reared up unexpectedly at Vice President Nixon's homecoming last week. In the crowd of 3,500 that greeted him at the airport, not a single high-name Democrat was in sight. When Nixon got to the Senate chamber to take up his post as presiding officer. Republicans stood up and applauded, but the Democrats present, including Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, remained seated and silent...
...Crawford was in especially good voice on this occasion. Her voice is not large, but it is appealing in quality--and particularly well suited to the Debussy peces. She spun some beautiful pianissimo tones in the upper middle range. Her only weakness is in notes above high G-sharp, which tend to come out either edgy or breathy. In all the songs John Crawford, her husband, provided exemplary accompaniments...
...White, in all fairness, was nearly beside himself with misery resulting from poor health and financial difficulties. Only towards the end of the performance and during an instrumental blues interlude with bassist Al Lucas, whose busy, well articulated work here was a high spot of the night, was he in good form...
...common at concerts of contemporary music, the performances were often a good deal better than the works peformed, although every composer on the roster was a "big name." Still, half the program offered music of high quality...