Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deaths throughout its thousands of classifications. When it finds such an increase, the odds-and the premiums-change accordingly. Its actuarial department alone employs 1,000 mathematicians whose job translating the death odds into dollars and cents is so complex that it would put a Las Vegas gambler to shame. Sample question for an actuary's exam: "What is the probability of throwing exactly nine heads exactly twice in five throws of ten true coins...
...Shame on TIME. If Nehru was wrong, Abe Lincoln was wrong...
...simple passive resistance by poor Catholic peasants." Diem himself was a man of peace. On a recent inspection trip, he discovered that the mountain tribes of Annam have no calendar, simply use the planting of the new rice crop to mark the new year. Diem decided it was a shame, picked Feb. 22 for the inauguration of an annual mountain New Year's party that will last for three days. The tribesmen will stage swordfighting contests, race on elephants. Diplomats flown up from Saigon will hunt tigers and wild buffalo...
After one of Bernstein's more dramatic evenings, an onlooker remarked slyly: "It was really a shame tonight. The composer was unable to carry out Bernstein's intentions." Yet Bernstein probably violates the composer's intentions far less often than his manner may suggest. His style is neither insincere nor imprecise. It is particularly effective with modern music, with which Bernstein has had consistent success, and whose complex rhythms he feels perhaps more deeply than he feels the serenities of the classics...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony (1928-36), at Salzburg, at Bayreuth and the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937-54). Few could define exactly how the little tyrant worked his magic with them. As he hoarsely, ardently sang along with the orchestra, or exhorted, bullied and implored, he could make performers redden with shame, burn with rage, or soften with sympathy for him. And with uncanny and unerring instinct, he knew which would wring a surpassing performance from each of them. Over the years, he played Svengali to hundreds of Trilbys. After listening to a recording of her singing in Toscanini...