Word: school
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...School before joining the Foreign Service after World War I. As he rose through the corps, putting out diplomatic fires from North Africa to Berlin, from Trieste to Panmunjom, Suez, Tunis and Lebanon (TIME cover, Aug. 25, 1958), 3,400 Foreign Service pros came to look upon him as "Mr. Foreign Service." His trademark was an amiable smile overlaying a dependable core of toughness. Said he to a trouble-minded Lebanese rebel leader at the height of the Lebanon crisis in August 1958: "You know, we have the power to destroy your positions in a matter of seconds. We haven...
...graduate of Paris' Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, once France's school for diplomats, the new King has never been the easygoing sort his father was. Something of a Puritan who lives a simple life with his one wife, he is a fervent antiCommunist, and is regarded as incorruptible. When the government recently announced that before the end of the year there would be a new constitution that would turn many of the powers of the National Assembly over to the King, everyone understood that power will go to a man who means to be a King...
Richter-Haaser's big-time career at the piano began at a time when many a lesser pianist is already beginning to fade from sight. The son of a carpenter (and amateur musician), he studied piano at the Dresden Music School, at 18 started to play concerts all over Germany. A decade later World War II interrupted his career. Assigned to an antiaircraft unit, he did not touch a piano for seven years, except to play in U.S. military hospitals as a P.W. at war's end. When he resumed his piano career in 1946, at 34, after...
...pull the listener in by the hair," letting the notes fall where they may? (Wisecracking Virtuoso Rubinstein boasted after one performance that he could play an entire new recital with the notes that had fallen under the piano.) Pianist Richter-Haaser belongs to the hair-pulling, note-dropping school, in the spectacular romantic tradition. His performance last week-Beethoven's "Appassionato," Sonata, Schumann's Fantasy in C Major, Stravinsky's Sonata, Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel-was studded with wrong notes and blurred acrobatics. But it also had the kind...
Founded in 1892 at the height of the Wisconsin timber boom, Northland began as a flourishing Congregationalist secondary school. When pines and people dwindled, it became a fading nonsectarian college. Gus Turbeville inherited a huddle of Victorian buildings, an unaccredited school without entrance requirements, a refuge for flunkees from other colleges. More than one trustee said to him: "I'd like to resign as soon as possible...