Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...percussion, and preside over a production of his opera Albert Herring. Although he has conducted some performances of his English Opera Group in the last two years, he still feels uneasy with a baton. "I never seem to know whether to move my arms to the right or left, or up or down . . ." But he was happy about going west: "The audience out there seems rather enthusiastic about my work...
Stewart also manages a poignant conclusion: one by one the old American survivors die off, and Ish, an antique god whose scepter is a hammer, is left alone with the new generation. One day through the fog of years he sees a half-naked savage standing respectfully before him. "Are you happy?" he quavers. "Things are as they are," the savage replies in puzzlement, "and I am part of them." The Last American passes his scepter to the savage, and dies, murmuring with the grasses and the winds and with Ecclesiastes: "Men go and come, but earth abides...
...strong enough leadership to carry through a long range program. Typically, the regimes of the last twenty years have been weak coalitions of moderates, able to reach agreement on only a few immediate issues, and held together mostly by a common fear of extremists of the Right and Left...
...eight different political parties. Since the Communists and the anti-government extremists on the Right control nearly half of the seats in the Assembly, a coalition of moderates requires the cooperation of members with wide differences of political sympathy, a range that in U.S. politics would extend from left-wing New Dealers to Senator Taft. There is no majority party, and for two years, the Communists, who have a plurality, have not been represented in the Cabinet. To add to the difficulties, the three parties in the center coalition, the Socialists, committed to a planned economy, the Popular Republicans, drawing...
...Yardlings got over this customary freshman problem in convincing fashion Saturday. Lamar admitted that backs Pete Dillingham, Jerry Blitz (two touchdowns), and John Ederer (one score, and linemen Hank Toopke and Arnie Horween, (both filling in on short notice for Bob Stargle, left behind in Stillman), had played good games...