Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everyone agreed with everything the President said; as usual, there were some blurred edges on some of his thoughts and sentences. But it was a week in which almost everyone, including most of Ike's severest critics, agreed that he was once again an undisputed leader, diplomatic as well as military. Statesmen and pundits in the world's capitals sensed this as well...
Strong Terms. As military leader, Ike assured the world that there would be no ground war over Berlin. Some strategists thought that by saying this, the President (who has had some experience around Berlin) gave away part of his bargaining power, part of his choice of alternatives; but its military truth in the face of overwhelming Communist manpower in Europe could hardly be disputed...
Walter Reuther, Vice-President of the AFL-CIO, has turned down an invitation to speak at the Medical School. In a letter to Dr. David D. Rutstein, professor of Preventive Medicine, the labor leader ruled out the possibility of his speaking here this year...
...preoccupation with subtle combinations of tone color informed the short piano pieces by Bertram Baldwin and David Behrman (a violin also entered Mr. Behrman's piece for a while). There were row structures, not so elaborate as Wolff's, but complicated enough to be hardly perceptible. The avant-garde leader Boulez would tell us that structure has gone underground. But does this subterreanean structure really give shape to a piece, or does it happen accidentally, or not at all? In a short composition like Baldwin's it is easier to give a sense of cohesiveness; this piece, rather aptly titled...
...Mirsky himself acts as leader for these raucous rhapsodes, and they keep the emotional pitch at a consistently high level. The play is not a continuing story, but a melange of speeches, scuffles, and flashbacks; Mr. Mirsky's direction keeps it together, keeps it moving, keeps it loud and furious as it should...