Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...native of Canada, "Mac" joined the sales staff of TIME in 1937, moved up the management ladder to various branch offices, and has been our top advertising executive since 1954. Under his leadership, TIME has achieved a uniquely strong advertising position. In the seven years since he became director (and as TIME'S circulation grew from 1,700,000 to 2,550,000), advertising revenue increased from $35 million to $51 million. TIME now ranks fourth among all maga zines in advertising revenue...
...smoke of war had cleared away. "My life has been backwards," he says. "Big success, retirement, and now I'm making an honest living." Starting a brand-new career three years ago at the Post-Dispatch, he has risen to the top of his profession, using as his ladder an inland newspaper that has always encouraged crusaders and viewed the nation and the world with "show me" detachment...
...oratorio is based on the Biblical story of Jacob's dream of a wondrous ladder on which angels moved between heaven and earth. In Schoenberg's vision, the bottom of the ladder is occupied by earthbound souls-the cowards, skeptics, cynics, journalists and unclean ones. The top of the ladder is filled with geniuses, gods and angels. The ascending and descending figures represented for Schoenberg the reincarnation that keeps human events in motion. The Ladder's lesson: "Learn to pray: he who prays is become one with...
Heavenly Ascent. Last week's audience was attentive, respectful, but clearly puzzled by both text and music. Showing signs of Schoenberg's restless groping for a new musical language, Jacob's Ladder called for a chamber chorus, two choirs, and the 100-man Cologne Radio Symphony under Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik. Spotted about the hall were speakers through which-in accordance with a marginal note made by Schoenberg in 1944-the distant, taped sounds of two orchestras and a choir were heard. Although there were occasional moments of sustained melody, Jacob's Ladder...
Noting the mixed reception Jacob's Ladder received, one critic regretted that Vienna had done "so little for her great son and also does so little for him today." But Gertrude Schoenberg, who attended the performance, seemed content. Asked if she thought her husband still needed to be defended, she replied: "Any man who protests against Schoenberg today is opposing an art form which is already historically anchored; he only makes himself ridiculous...