Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). Nancy Kelly, Max Lerner et al. discuss the "ideal spouse...
...Gandhian ideal of satyagraha invoked the power of souls when souls were pure, but today's soul force rioting often stirred up by Communist agitators, is really only mass hooliganism. Addressing a crowd of 200,000 in Bihar, amid unprecedented booing, Nehru told students, "In Russia, I saw tremendous progress through discipline and hard work. But you want only chaos and confusion. You cannot even dream of how you would be dealt with in Russia...
...Strauss and Poet-Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal to start the Salzburg Festival. As recording boss Paumgartner showed his capacity for speed as well as scholarship, as he shuttled between his Mozarteum office and the huge reception hall of the 18th 'century Klessheim Castle, where he finds the acoustics ideal for recording. There, wearing black corduroys and sleeveless sweater, he leads his performers through six hours of recording daily. His energy is matched only by his resourcefulness. At one point, dissatisfied with a soprano's rendition of one passage in Don Giovanni, he slapped the singer hard...
...measured against his contemporaries in the German language-Gerhart Hauptmann, Rilke, Kafka, Stefan Zweig et al.-Mann was still a giant. And against charges that he was "Olympian," "pompous," "ponderous," he could well defend himself: "My endeavor," he wrote, "is to make the heavy light; my ideal is clarity; and if I write long sentences-a tendency inherent in the German tongue-I make it my business, not without success, to maintain the utmost transparency and spoken rhythm." In German he was an exquisite stylist, and he brought to that language a new sensitivity in the art of storytelling...
...refuse to give in to the terrorists? Says Editor Mazzella: "I'm fulfilling a human obligation I just can't run away from. I'm attached to Maroc-Presse. It's the only newspaper that's ever given me the means to defend an ideal...