Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the time came for Truman's full-dress speech, he was full of a fury that shocked the Stevenson-minded New York audience. He threw away a large chunk of his prepared script, sneered at "those snobs who think they have solutions to all our problems," and lit into "the hothouse liberal who talks the game but doesn't play it ... Let us choose a liberal who meets the requirements of the people who know the difference between a working liberal and a talking liberal . . . I for one have no time for the Johnny-come-lately, well...
...question in everyone's mind was what President Garcia would do. Lewin's friends in high places had saved him before. But Garcia was still smarting from last month's election defeat (TIME, Nov. 23), in which charges of corruption figured heavily. Would Lewin get off, or would he be deported to show how untrue all the charges of scandal in government were? Awaiting a hearing next week, Lewin sat in his penthouse and complained, "I'm just the little guy being persecuted...
...range and strangeness of his imaginings. ¶The Diver has as its setting a flooded rooftop on Pittsburgh's Polish Hill, with the Pennsylvania Railroad main line in the background. Key to the composition is the girl's arm, tenderly outstretched toward the skindiver. Koerner had in mind the sort of arduous wooing found in fairy tales, where the king sets a series of tasks for the princess' suitor. In this case, Koerner says, the king may be the lifeguard in the boat, and he may have flung a ring into the water for the youth...
Unlocking a Mind. That haunting effect begins with the eerie, keening scream of the infant Helen Keller's mother (Patricia Neal) when she discovers that her child is deaf and blind. It is warmed by the first sound of the soft, self-assured brogue of Annie Sullivan arriving from Boston to take charge of Helen. It is nourished by the overwhelming urgency of Annie's every action, her passionate need to dispense with the amenities-and with the Keller family's sentimental softness-in order to get down to the awful business of unlocking a darkened human...
...scary mood, not unlike the effect of the most terrifying sections of a horror movie. The pseudo-meaningful verses by that overrated American poet, Kenneth Patchen, do not help the listener in his attempt to grasp the unprofound programmatic idea that Mr. Cutler seems to have had in mind. Yet, in spite of this immature approach to the subject that Mr. Cutler chose to pursue, the last two sections show that he has a fine control of the resources of an orchestra. The orchestral song based on a death in wartime is stunning and gripping in its controlled hysteria...