Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemy. The fact is that Europe fears Communism much less than war. While it felt a clear and present danger of war, Europe responded to U.S. exhortation, but it does not respond similarly to alarms about Communism. Europeans have lived for centuries with neighbors who are implacably hostile and intent on destroying their way of life. Yet when an uninterested Europe let EDC go down, Western European statesmen saw with sudden clarity that something had to be done-that peace ultimately depends on strength...
While much of the University will focus its attention his weekend on the Princeton football game, an intent group of men will remain in Cambridge, reading criminal law, quietly waiting for the baseball season to start...
Shortcomings of this nature become so important, of course, only in music like lieder, where they play a crucial part in the composer's intent. In Negro spirituals, which formed the second part of the program, "interpretive" values become uppermost. Once freed from demands beyond his technique, Harkless relaxed and gave really moving renditions. Three of the songs were somewhat marred by self-conscious accompaniments, but the two selections sung without piano provided magnificent examples of our native music performed with understanding and deep affection...
...couple of Jacks: London and Barrymore. She traveled to Europe and Africa as the piano accompanist of a vaudeville singer, and soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, arbiter of New York society ("Every woman should marry twice-the first time for money, the second time for love"), and Sir Lionel Phillips, a South African millionaire who would...
...using the money bags of the oil barons to support his demagogue pals . . ." Save for a few intent Followers in the front row, the score or so in the audience let their concentration lapse and their eyes drift from the speaker behind the chintz-covered table. A rough-hewn bust of Trotsky dominated one corner. Sleazy rattan blinds covered the high, narrow windows. Dusty, antique light fixtures shone dimly from the peeling ceiling...