Word: shame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young was a man of grandiose ideas and supreme self-confidence who felt it his destiny to create a great transcontinental railroad system that would put to shame the 19th century railroad empires of Harriman, Vanderbilt and Gould. The keystone would be the Central. But it was not until 1954 that he was ready to move in for the kill. Quietly he had bought up stock, then loudly bombarded the Central with newspaper ads attacking its operating policies. Gradually, he softened confidence in the Central's management until he finally captured the road with the help of a dazzling...
...club members: "It is enough to make the angels weep to see a great mass of America's wealthy and better-class sons full of zeal and fire with interest in the surging hundreds of the sisterhood of shame and death...
...shame Peggy Guggenheim's collection is going to Venice [Dec. 16]. All modern art should be in America...
...diligent guard over top-level military policies, carries voluminous texts of significant military documents. Boasts Publisher Robert Ames: "We reach the top management audience of the military." The Journal's weak spot is its tendency to be a house organ for the military. This it does with out shame or doubt, meticulously listing in country-weekly style all military transfers (sometimes thousands an issue), runs a chatty society section devoted to service doings, plus a vital statistics column in which, as one staffer says, "an Army brasshat has to be mentioned to make the birth official...
Responsibility for the general fiasco rests with nearly everyone but the set designer, John Beck, whose amazingly careful stone walls and interesting extended floor areas triumph over the standard limitations of Agassiz. The sets were helped by fine, if not always timely lighting. It is a shame to waste such a fine background...