Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sicilian who paid "protection" to the Mafia was virtually immune from theft or attack. In those days the murder of a Mafia member like Nino meant only one thing-he had betrayed the organization. Lately, however, the once unquestioned authority of the Mafia has been challenged by a rival syndicate that calls itself Anonima Delitte-Crime Incorporated. In the past two years Crime Inc. has murdered 22 Mafia men. Result: a sharp drop in public faith in the effectiveness of Mafia protection and an increasing number of clients for Crime Inc.'s protection service...
Langlie, no flaming orator, had an oratorical flourish or two to rival a Clement. The Democrats, he said, have a heritage of "colossal mismanagement and corruption . . . For 20 years [they] subsisted only from one crisis to another−some real, some imaginary, some fabricated...
...Cronkite. working his familiar anchor spot, gave the most informed, alert and consistently lucid commentary, held up best under the week's strain. His biggest coup: getting Ave Harriman inside the fishbowl to exchange blessings with Estes Kefauver on a split-screen hookup (denounced as "electronic fakery" by rival ABC). CBS's seasoned twosome of Ed Murrow and Eric Severeid was seen only fleetingly, bantering the big picture with the casualness of network executives at a ball game...
Legs Crossed, Jackets Buttoned. Network rivalry hit a new peak. CBS posted a sign for its staffers: "Under no circumstances are you to patronize the NBC cafeteria." TV Reporter Vince Garrity caused an outraged flurry by flaunting ABC lapel pins in range of rival cameras. NBC went so far as to hire a professional lip reader to try to catch out-of-reach conversation, and ABC issued instructions to its staff: "Be sure when you are on camera, that you sit up straight, have your legs crossed modestly, and your jacket buttoned...
Igor Stravinsky Chamber Works 1911-1954 (Columbia). A representative collection, presumably played as well as possible, since the composer himself is brandishing the baton. At one stylistic extreme is his Septet, which makes use of a method of composition similar to that used by his late rival. Arnold (Twelve-Tone) Schoenberg. At the other extreme are Stravinsky's early songs, orchestrated recently, which, in Marni Nixon's bell-clear soprano, have a childlike charm...