Word: peers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of the world's most profitable corporation last week sat as an embarrassed witness before a Senate subcommittee. General Motors President James M. Roche, 59, candidly admitted that his company - without his knowledge - had hired a private eye to peer into the personal life of a young man who had written a book about au tomotive safety particularly criticizing a G.M. product. Said Roche: "I am not here to excuse, condone or justify in any way. To the extent that General Motors bears responsibility, I want to apologize here...
...light won't change and you kind of peer over your shoulder and he's still there, looking at you. Really seraphically happy. So what the hell. You go inside...
...subtle art of establishing the sacred origin of profane events, Rumanian-born Scholar Eliade has no peer. A pipe-smoking polymath who speaks six languages and writes fluently in three, Eliade, 58, is a prolific novelist as well as chairman of Chicago's history of religion department. His new book, Mephistopheles and the Androgyne: Studies in Religious Myth and Symbol (Sheed & Ward; $5), demonstrates why he is probably the world's foremost living interpreter of spiritual myths and symbolism. Jerald Brauer, dean of Chicago's divinity school, and other scholars compare Eliade's works to those...
Drum majorettes are the feature at the Albion, cowgirls at the Las Vegas, and at the Transistor Cutie Club a bevy of "teeny-weeny wonders" all under five feet tall are trained to peer up tactfully at the businessman in elevator shoes. All told, Tokyo's clubs gross some $1,500,000 a night. From Christmas week through the New Year, they count on trebling that take...
Orchestra and Chorus are outstanding and the soloists are good. They include Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Jerome Mines, who sings majestically in spite of a few uncertain slides into home bass. Klemperer's sober new recording is musically the peer of Sir Thomas Beecham's big bright version with its heady hallelujahs (RCA Victor), and of Sir Adrian Boult's, which stars Joan Sutherland and her exquisite embellishments (London...