Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mozart: Symphony No. 41, K. 551 (the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Doughty Sir Thomas has never been exactly reticent about his podium prowess with Mozart. Here (and with the "Prague" Symphony on the other side) he makes good his boasts. For beauty of phrasing and tone, this deep and glowing performance of the "Jupiter" is hard to beat. Recording: excellent...
...drinking habits of Cornellians, usually not at all immodest, brought them national notoriety last year when an undergraduate, desirous of demonstrating his drinking prowess during the initiation ceremonies of a social fraterity, guzzled a quart of martinis at one throw. Within minutes, the initiate was out and fading. Moved to a hospital, the drinker recovered but he had come close enough to death to cause the university to ban two of the three social fraternities (drinking societies) and impose strict regulations on the third...
Ezra Pound could recognize an original talent. He tried to take over the newcomer, wined & dined him, tossed him fraternally over his head in a restaurant to demonstrate his prowess at jujitsu, invited him to join the sessions where Pound and other poets like Richard Aldington and Hilda Doolittle rewrote each other's poetry. Pound tried rewriting a Frost verse, announced triumphantly, "Well, I've got you by four syllables. You did it in 53 and I got it down to 49." Frost never even looked. "I'll bet you've spoiled all my nice little...
...Prowess with Drags. Radford's class at Annapolis-1916-produced more carrier admirals in World War II than any other. They, and others of their times, were a group of mavericks, individualists and innovators. A few of them tried for West Point-and took Annapolis because appointments there were easier to get from Congressmen. Radford (born in Chicago in 1896) was one of these. It was a matter of considerable surprise to Radford's father-a Canadian-born civil engineer who had moved on from Chicago to Grinnell, Iowa-when young Arthur told him, one fine day, that...
...younger than most of his classmates. His grades, mediocre at first, got better every year. The 1916 Lucky Bag (Academy yearbook) said: "Raddy came to us as a child-a pink-cheeked Apollo; since then he has been fooling people." The yearbook entry mentioned Radford's prowess with "drags" (i.e., girls), and sketched a disaster that happened in his second year-"he got a smoking pop with a hop only a week off"-which means that he was disciplined for out-of-bounds smoking and missed a dance...