Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was no garden-variety variety show, for Fred Astaire is a professional perfectionist. He and his troupe sweated through seven weeks of rehearsal. Every step was planned; every word was carefully timed. And the end result was the essence of relaxation. Titian-haired young (23) Barrie Chase, Fred's new partner, fitted into his new routines as easily as Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse ever fitted into the old. Jonah Jones, a beaming barrel of a man, demonstrated that a trumpet can almost talk, especially if it has Astaire's tireless feet to talk back. Fred, singing...
...roentgens per hour at 5,000 miles to 2 roentgens per hour at 17,000 miles, and that this meant that future space wayfarers should not have much to fear from radiation. But the project's scientists promptly warned that such apparent discoveries may prove to be the result of instrument failure or a drop in the power supply of the recording apparatus. The definitive report on Pioneer's findings may not be released for weeks or months...
...Salzburg's Mozarteum). A weakness : an almost interminable list of required courses, which tends to prevent a student from exploring deeply any subject except his major. The faculty is well-paid ($4,700-$12,500), deliberately weighted toward men who are good teachers first, publishing scholars second. The result -in addition to excellent teaching - is that while professors respected in their fields are plentiful, Oberlin has no scholars of towering national reputation...
...columns bong with death-knell words and phrases: "hair-raising," "chaos," "crisis," "the slippery brink of disaster," "in these dark times," "the edge of the abyss." Should hope well feebly in his breast, he is inclined to stifle it: "It is still too early to say that the worst result is already inevitable...
...plot maneuvers as complicated as a gavotte, Author Murdoch sees to it that the insiders and the outsiders mix, mate and mangle each other. A lengthy subplot centers on the discovery and raising of the ancient abbey bell, legendarily consigned to the bottom of the lake as a result of a curse on an errant nun. The bell, of course, is a symbol for that clear-ringing innocence of which the colonists are self-deprived...