Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms. The daily Cardinal . . . headlines intimate that I wrote the article and that I was a Judas, a traitor, a high-blown intellectual who betrayed his alma mater. Today is my birthday, and it is 15 below zero. I am whimpering by my fireplace . . . expecting any moment to hear the roar of the crowd as they march up my street to lynch me. ... I couldn't find anything inaccurate in the story, except it gave the impression Wisconsin was the rougher of the teams, which it wasn't, and didn't say that Iowa had 32 fouls...
...American Olympic hockey debacle as a minor international incident. Snow is drifting over the St. Moritz rinks, and the A.H.A. and the A.A.U. teams are taking a look-see through Europe on the cuff before embarking for the States. The Brundage versus Brown issue is, for the moment, closed. But in backroom, beer-primed athletic colloquiums the nation over, A.A.U. and A.H.A. partisans are waxing eloquent over the entire American amateur athletic picture. Avery Brundage's Olympic committee, of which Bill Bingham is a member, gets excited about amateur athletics once every four years, searches through its dusty files...
...this made more of an impression. In less time than it takes to sing "I'll See You in My Dreams" they were married, thus ending the plot, part I. Plot, part II, almost brings the band to New York and the big time, but just at the opportune moment November 1929 comes along and brings a depression. Plot, part III, finally gets the band into the big time when Oscar Levant, erst-while pianist, takes over a brick factory which makes money, apparently better than music as the means to the band's success...
...drama critics (TIME, March 25, 1946), Critic Shaw was all sympathy: "Somewhere in the middle of rehearsals [the authors†] discovered they wished to rewrite the script almost entirely." But "the theater today has . . . the quality of a conveyor belt [which] moves in an inexorable rhythm toward the set moment at which the finished product must be taken off the line and sold. This may be all very well for an automobile...
Almost every day of his hunted existence was a new complex of calculations and risks; a single muddleheaded moment might have ruined him. Despite the author's simplicity, the reader gradually becomes aware of his extraordinary energy and coolness. But the book is not only an adventure story but a family history, told by a devout and loving father. Remy flouted the Gestapo for over a year and a half with a wife and four children on his hands. And he learned his job as he went along...