Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't know anything about him. He could have been, well, any kind of general." But Soustelle wired his support to Charles de Gaulle, and was summoned to London. There the young competition animal (he was then 28) recognized a man he regarded as fit to be his master. Years afterward an old Marxist friend, cornering Soustelle at an art exhibition, reproachfully demanded: "Jacques, how could you have left us for a man?" "Ah," said Soustelle, his face lighting up, "but what...
...final songs were the six Ariettes oubliees that Debussy composed to evocative poems of Verlaine in 1888. Though youthful works, which were radically avant-garde in their day, they proved that Debussy was already a master Impressionist. "II pleure dans mon coeur" remains one of the most exquisite gems in the whole song literature...
...successful were these illusions and escapes that many of Houdini's vast audience actually believed he could communicate with spirits, that he had supernatural powers. But as the movies began to edge vaudeville into the wings, the master escapist earned most of his headlines by proving that anyone who claimed such magic was a fake. While he tilted with the table rappers and spook producers, he continued to produce new stunts for the stage. He was still at it in the fall of 1926, when he let a college boxer test his vaunted toughness by punching...
...Jamal at the Pershing, was for months the top jazz LP in the country. For club engagements Ahmad now gets a top fee of $3,000 per week. Appearing last week at Indiana's French Lick Jazz Festival, he was at the top of his inventive form. A master of the dramatic effects of silence, he sometimes sits for as much as 16 bars without touching a key ("A pattern," he points out, "can be completed in space"). He rarely repeats himself in a chorus, may go in one brief number-Autumn in New York or The Girl Next...
...days of Buddha, this annual retreat had a practical purpose: farmers had complained that the master's disciples, wandering the countryside begging for alms, were trampling the newly sprouting rice plants, and the Lord Buddha ordered his priests to keep out of the way until the crop was full grown. As centuries passed, the practice turned into a kind of spiritual excursion that every Buddhist layman tried to enjoy, and eventually entering the temporary priesthood became a matter of course; laborers, businessmen, monarchs (King Phumiphon in 1956) went through the 90-day ritual. "It's like going...