Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incident struck the dominant note for the 20th Communist Party Congress: Khrushchev acting the boss and instructing everyone to act as if there were no such thing as a boss...
Before the note of the chime had faded, the sound of a steelband grew in the distance. It was a sweet thrumming that, as it grew closer, began to resemble a giant mandolin playing a pretty tune. It was accompanied by an insistent clanging, like a syncopated firebell. Within a few minutes no fewer than 139 steelbands burst onto Port-of-Spain's streets, gathering prancing followers as they went. The marchers strode, sensuously, with bent knees and swinging hips, sometimes six or eight clasped together in a veering line, sometimes a single marcher so excited by the music...
What! A "management analysis" of the Roman Catholic Church [Jan. 30]-ye gads, that is a new note; and yet, why not? If God can't do any better than leave His Divine Church in the hands of human beings, I suppose He won't be surprised (nor should we) to have human measuring sticks applied...
...critics gave him a pasting, and he admits now that it was well-deserved. "They wanted to hear a performer play every little note as written," he says ruefully. Back in Paris he devoted himself to high living, for which he had almost as much talent as for music. He shared an apartment with a French count, "had a little carriage and was thin as a stick because I never got to bed until morning." One evening Composer Paul (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) Dukas found him breakfasting in a cafe and insisted that he come at once...
Against this strident tone a new Jackson daily, the State Times (TIME, March 7), tried to sound a more moderate note on racial issues. When the paper started about a year ago, Editor Norman Bradley, an alumnus of the liberal Chattanooga Times, played desegregation news calmly, sometimes chided the state for abuses and injustices committed in the name of segregation. But the paper's directors opposed his policy, and he quit in December to return to the Chattanooga Times as its executive editor. Since he left, the State Times has been tugging almost as hard as Sullens to hold...