Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the weekly New Mexican was founded in 1849 in Santa Fe, at the southwest end of the Santa Fe trail, the editors decided it was politic to pick as few quarrels as possible. In brawling Santa Fe, arguments were usually won by the man who was first on the draw. So the New Mexican's first two-page issue carried a "let's-be-friends" note: "The New Mexican, in Politics and Religion, will maintain a strict neutrality, regarding partisanship as utterly unnecessary and a barrier to the general good...
...famed Philharmonic and one of the men who would conduct it. Globe-trotting Eugene Goossens was no stranger to Britain;* he was born there, and had conducted many an opera, ballet and concert there over the years. But some festival visitors knew him more recently as the man who had led the Cincinnati Symphony for 16 years, then left the lush musical pastures of the U.S. two years ago to pioneer in the musical wilderness of Australia...
...Much Boomerang." At week's end, British critics found Goossens a man who "gives an impression of almost frightening efficiency," although they found his Berliners, by comparison with Beecham's Royal Philharmonic, slightly drab. Some found fault with his Mozart "Jupiter" (too dull). But after Roy Harris' brassy Third Symphony and Goossens' own Oboe Concerto (written for and played by his brother, the great oboist Leon Goossens), they had to admit that "the results [of his efficiency] certainly [were] confirmed a hundredfold...
...time the orchestra got to the last full-band chords, Composer Gillis, a man who knows how to use every bleep, boom and buzz in an orchestra with a light touch, had given them just about everything in music but Toscanini. Said grinning Conductor Dorati, mopping his perspiring brow: "Great...
...Communist Daily Worker had not given its stamp of approval to local revivals of four old W. C. Fields comedies and last week Columnist David Platt told why: "It is because three of the four, The Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee and You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, are shot through with white chauvinism...