Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guest and host seemed to be finding much common ground. But at Tashkent, an area where the Moslem faith has been rigorously suppressed by the Communists, Moslem Sukarno gave his favorite catchword a sharp twist. Pointing out that the first of the five principles of the Asian Panch Shila, upon which the Indonesian state is founded, calls for belief in God and respect for all religions, Sukarno cut short his address so that Moslems present could attend evening prayer. Said he: "I say salaam aleikum (peace be with you). I close with merdeka, merdeka and once more merdeka...
...will loose a torrent of color spectaculars in hopes of tottering CBS's rating preeminence. Splashiest of all will probably be onetime Vaudeville Hoofer Walter Winchell as host of his own variety show early next month. Paul Douglas will join Mary Martin, biggest audience-puller on TV. in Born Yesterday on Hallmark Hall of Fame, which will also repro cruce Shaw's Man and Superman with
Fleur-de-Lis & Ham Hands. Finally with the null null Purchasing Director Bernard Green guarding the door against newsmen, the executive council members entered the conference room, settled themselves around a U-shaped table (its light blue cloth elegantly flecked with silverish fleur-de-lis) to hear genial Host Dave Dubinsky bring the major issue to a showdown. Said Dubinsky: "Let's decide whether we are going to endorse anyone...
...Pissarro's works staged by the painter's old gallery, Durand-Ruel. the first major Pissarro show in Paris for 30-odd years, goes far to clear and enhance Pissarro's reputation. He was the most impressionable of the impressionists, a painter who influenced a host of painters from Cezanne to Van Gogh and Gauguin, then had the sensitivity and malleability to be influenced by them in turn. The full sweep of Pissarro's lifetime output, ranging from an early landscape done in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he was born in 1830 (into a mixed...
Conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, Britain's terrible-tempered Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham paused between downbeats to take a swipe at his Scottish host. The Edinburgh Festival and others like it are "bunk." said Sir Thomas. "They are for the purpose of attracting trade for the town. What that has to do with music I don't know...