Word: intrepidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just about a year ago intrepid Bostonians trooped out to see a new musical by two little-known composers, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The opening night audience had no special expectations, so that when the show turned out to be the best musical in years, they were pleasantly surprised and delighted with their find. This week, people will go to the Shubert to see the latest Ross-Adler musical with high hopes, expecting a fresh score with next month's Hit Parade in the overture. Damn Yankees won't let them down; it is a better show than Pajama...
...Woman in the Polar Night, by Christiane Ritter (Button; $3), is the story of another intrepid woman and her adventures in a colder climate than Arizona. Frau Ritter lived for a year on the north coast of Spitsbergen in a hut ten feet square, with her husband and a young Norwegian hunter, in temperatures that sank to 40° below zero. To the north lay Anxiety Bay, to the south Distress Hook, to the east Misery Bay and to the west the Bay of Grief. Not a tree or shrub rose from the sea of stones that covered the desolate...
...will ever conduct again-nobody knows. But his 68 years on the podium are already a legend. Wrote New York Times Critic Olin Downes: "Should this have been his permanent farewell... his name will remain supreme and his achievement immortally revered. There has never been a more gallant and intrepid champion of great music, or a spirit that flamed higher, or a nobler defender of the faith...
...that elusive quality that glues the Army, Navy and Marine Corps into cohesive units. Then, by the beginning of this year, it was suddenly clear that all of the experiments, all of the fighting, all of the training had coalesced. The U.S. had more than jets and bombs and intrepid pilots; it had, in the U.S. Air Force, the world's most powerful modern fighting outfit...
Valor & Cowardice. Angelo continues his ride to Italy convinced that the conduct of the intrepid doctor is the best answer to this question. For everywhere he goes, most men & women are responding to the threat of death with be havior that is a degradation of the hu man spirit. The rich are fleeing the plague in expensive carriages, bribing quarantine officials to let them through. The middle class are incapable of fleeing because they are weighed down by stuffed furniture and bric-a-brac. The poor are working themselves into a state of hysteria by spreading and believing bloodcurdling...