Word: profound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Middle-sized, plumpish John von Neumann was a man people liked on sight. Those who barely knew him called him Johnny; he might have been a popular restaurateur or candy-shop proprietor. He was, instead, the greatest mathematician of his time. His ideas and personality had a profound effect on today's scientific...
Foot on the Pedal. Working seven days a week, against local skepticism so profound that for a long while grocers refused credit to his own family, Frank Rackley slowly amassed community support that helped swing a $1,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan in 1950. With the loan for working capital, Rackley was in business. He became one of the youngest steel presidents in the industry. With heavy Korean-war orders to help, Jessop Steel netted $400,000 in 1951, $1,800,000 in 1952. Though earnings fell to $25,000 in 1954, Jessop came back handily through the rest...
...Indian sign language, fellow name of Iron Eyes Cody, to teach those studio Indians how to speak their lines. Nothing doing. After quite a few reels of furtive finger-wiggling, the hired Hiawathas simply quit the kidding, and one of them, with every line of his body expressing his profound relief, declares...
...good a play? Having raised the first question, I shall drop it with the statement that whatever the proper lable for the work may be, it is often splendidly theatrical. With a surface reminiscent of a Charlie Chaplin film, it offers long stretches which are at once amusing and profound. But there are other stretches which are quite dull. The trouble here seems to be that Beckett ventured on dangerous ground when he did away with a plot and made his characters into symbols rather than people. The mainspring of drama is conflict between very much living and three-dimensional...
...Landowska where she felt they were implied in the score. By delicate adjustments of touch, Landowska even manages to convey some of the sharp differences of tone color characteristic of the pianoforte of Mozart's day. The result is a series of performances with shimmering articulation and a profound, spacious sense of repose. Played far more slowly than the usual "virtuoso" Mozart performances, they suggest tensions in the simple melodies rarely detected since Mozart...