Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunny Season. In all the new questionings going on, the public proclamations and the private forebodings, events seemed to be under the domination of General Charles de Gaulle. In fact, he was having his way rather than showing leadership (for leadership implies an agreed and shared objective). De Gaulle's behavior proved again that one man who knows what he wants has a priceless tactical advantage over a group of men who hope through debate to forge a mutually agreeable compromise...
...more ambitious weeks this season. Lee J. Cobb's performance in I, Don Quixote (see below) was one of several striking performances. Others...
...most beautiful women, Soprano Moffo was soon singing in major European opera houses, was signed by the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1957. She had turned down two previous offers from the Met on the ground that the proposed schedule demanded too much of her time. (This season she will appear also in the Met's Faust and Marriage of Figaro...
While many another team across the nation can run up gaudy season records against in-and-out opposition, the schools of the rugged Big Ten are cursed by having to play one another Saturday after Saturday. The resulting won-lost marks are often unimposing, but by mid-November the fires of Big Ten competition annually forge a flock of tough, tenacious teams that can meet any squad in the land on even terms. Last week thrice-beaten Michigan State overturned Northwestern, 15-10, and thrice-beaten Illinois did the same to Wisconsin, 9-6, to throw the Big Ten race...
Last week they had their answer, were talking about getting masks of their own. Plante fashioned his first shutout of the season by blanking the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-0, had allowed only five goals in five games (v. 28 in twelve pre-mask games), was a major reason for the Canadiens' long lead in the N.H.L. Said Plante: "When I first put on the mask, the boys all told me I would scare the women. They wouldn't come to see the games any more. I'll tell you something: if I went...