Word: puts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bernstein put such distinguished nonprofessionals on his program? "Christmas family spirit," said Lenny. Each man had the background to make the party a serious success. Manager Moseley studied piano under famed Teacher Olga Samaroff, was a fellow student of Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood in 1941. Later, Moseley spent five years (1950-55) as director of the School of Music at the University of Oklahoma. Sugar Baron Keiser, Harvard '27, won a Juilliard scholarship after graduation, studied piano under Ernest Hutcheson before he took over the family business (Cuban-American Sugar Co.). Keiser still gives concerts near his home...
...back. Weary slogans, old patterns of thought will not be too useful in the 1960s." As Holman and many another U.S. businessman knows, the growth of the U.S. was not accomplished by old patterns of thought. It was accomplished by new ideas and experimentation, by resourcefulness and eagerness to put...
...plant at Essonnes, France asked Watson for permission to build a shed to house the workers' bicycles; two years later he said he needed to enlarge the shed to accommodate all the motorcycles. "Next time I was there," says Watson, "our manager explained that they were having to put blacktop on one of the fields; we needed the space for the workers' cars...
...pieces that makes the anthology well worth attention is one of Gold's own, Love and Like. The author examines a young man who is trying to put his life back together a few weeks after a shattering divorce. He seems to be succeeding until, at story's end, an idea is seen at the periphery of his mind, the more horrifying because it has been so thoroughly excluded from his conscious thoughts. It is the idea of suicide. Another story whose effect lingers after the pages have been turned is Bernard Malamud's The Magic Barrel...
...makes considerably more sense to him than his hollow existence as an academician. The savages consider him a master prophet, and he is on the point of believing it himself when, like a paddle ball on a rubber cord, he is snapped back to civilization. The irony is delicately put, and Satirist Elliott leaves no doubt as to which society he is shaving with his razor's edge...