Word: rakings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amazingly, in his last ordeal, the smirking canonical rake became a man. He refused to make a false confession, found his own soul, and died with a dignity that put the fear of God (and the devils) in his judges...
...thinks casting directors expect him to be good at learning difficult modern scores because of the thorough musical training he got studying the violin. On Baritone Harrell's schedule for next winter: parts in Milhaud's Christopher Columbus (with the Philharmonic-Symphony) and Stravinsky's Rake's Progress at the Metropolitan Opera...
...steel. Ohio's Republican Representative George H. Bender asked for a bipartisan committee to consider impeachment of Harry Truman. The Senate Labor Committee (favorable to the Administration) began hearings on a bill that would regulate Government seizures. The Senate Judiciary Committee (unfavorable to the Administration) prepared to rake over the constitutionality of Truman's action. With the Administration still backing him up, Steelworker Boss Philip Murray berated the companies, and called for the full WSB score, down to the last quarter note: "I expect the Government of the U.S. to impose the [WSB] recommendations...
...white-haired boy of the Paris art world is Bernard Buffet, a dour, 23-year-old recluse. His paintings are miserable in mood, dingy in color, austere in composition and lifeless in essence. Yet he sells almost everything he does, for fat prices-and rake-thin Artist Buffet paints upwards of 100 canvases a year...
...successful grande cocotte of the family who might be its dowager duchess-for lessons in how to eat ortolans or determine the comparative value of jewels. Aunt Alicia also decides which rich young Parisian shall launch her grandniece. But the play itself decides on a prettier ending: the chosen rake (Michael Evans) offers lovestruck Gigi no proposition but a proposal...