Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less convincing one. While All the Kings Men depicted an era and a people as well as Willy Stark, A Lion is in the Streets portrays only Hank Martin, a character divorced form his context. For this reason it lacks much of the color of its black and white predecessor...
...Much Twaddle? Paying his respects to the wisdom and sincerity of his illustrious predecessor, President Pusey decided to state the problem baldly: "This faith will no longer...
Portrait on a Cameo. Far different from De Lattre, Navarre also proved that he was a different man from his immediate predecessor, General Raoul Salan, a fully competent professional soldier who was handcuffed both by Paris' orders to avoid casualties and by his own lack of military panache...
Gershwin: Concerto in F (Leonard Pennario, pianist; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Steinberg; Capitol). After his Rhapsody in Blue tipped Manhattan on its ear in 1924, Gershwin got to work on his ambitious concerto. Less jazzy than its predecessor and more of a patchwork than old-line concertos, it nevertheless teems with vitality and fun. Pianist Pennario lays into his job with a will, and the orchestra turns in a high-spirited performance...
...comfortable Hollywood home, just a step from his own swimming pool, successful Historian Durant scribbled away, well beyond the halfway mark, at the job he marked out for himself in 1912. The Renaissance is the fifth fat volume in Will Durant's story of civilization, and like its predecessor volumes it is a highly readable and informative popular survey...