Word: lustered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...14th Annual Peabody Awards, announced in Manhattan this week: RADIO NEWS: ABC's Chet Huntley (of Los Angeles station KABC), because he has "consistently demonstrated a talent for mature commentary on the controversial issues of the day." PUBLIC SERVICE (REGIONAL) : Atlanta's NBC station WSB, for adding "luster" to broadcasting with its project, Removing the Rust from Radio...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony played without him. As his entrances approached, he grew tense, and his body began to sway and jerk to the rhythm. But there was nothing jerky about his playing. From his crashing fanfares to his softly rippling passagework, his performance had the strength and luster of blue steel. When the music ended, there was a moment of silence before the crowd recovered itself enough to start cheering...
...Maugham story about a missionary and a prostitute on a South Sea island. This one offers Rita Hayworth in the tart part made famous on the stage by Jeanne Eagels (Rain, 1922), and on the screen by Gloria Swanson (1928) and Joan Crawford (1932). Actress Hayworth adds no new luster to the old story...
...places (Rome, Paris, London, New York) and purposes (broadcasting music, guiding an airplane) which electricity serves. As Poet Wallace Stevens wrote in an essay accompanying the Dufy lithograph: "It is an exploitation of fact by a man of elevation. It is a surface of prose changeable with the luster of poetry and thought...
...taught by psychologists, medicine by doctors--each field, in fact, by people devoted to it, even devoted to certain theories in the field to the exclusion of others. Both the devotees and the theories compete, and out of this conflict comes accomplishments that add to the University's intellectual luster. Once it is admitted that the common strands in religions are useful to education, the devotees of religion, and this includes many men outside the ministry, deserve as much intellectual tolerance as anyone else...