Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Silent Chancellor. All the while, 81-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sat stonily in a front row. After all, he himself has recently been pulling away from the Americans. His lieutenants are distressed by Adenauer's recent electioneering demands for a ban on the H-bomb and a closer look at the Soviet promise to pull troops out of Central Europe. But none dared tell der Alte so to his face. Irritated by their timid, roundabout hinting, Adenauer refused to have anything to do with their debate...
...writing, arithmetic, history, geography and science, will soon add Latin and elementary anatomy. At 11 a.m. he gets half a pint of free milk that is provided by the government, later pays 35? for a hot lunch. Though addressed as Prince Charles, he must obey all the rules, keep silent during the meal, and clean his plate. "We never keep a pig bin," says one of his teachers. "The boys have to eat every scrap put in front of them...
...eloquent though silent witness for the bill was "Airplane," research hero of 1956 (TIME, Dec. 3), who frisked about to show that an animal can be well and happy after major surgery on his heart...
...class of '39). He majored in music ?counterpoint with Arthur Tillman Merritt, theory with Walter Piston?but he spread his interests straight across the academic boards, and laid down a strong foundation of culture to support his musical taste. He also found time to play the piano for silent movies at the student film club, tried out?but was rejected?for the job of second Glee Club accompanist (years later Bernstein, who never forgets, came to Harvard to conduct the Glee Club; during rehearsal he turned to one of the two pianists and said: "You have...
...fail. Bad news, such as the death in an airplane crash last November of his protege Guido Cantelli, was kept from him. On New Year's Day, he suffered a stroke, prelude to the death that came in his sleep. The big loudspeakers in the living room were silent, but everywhere the eulogies and the memorials began. In Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, a solemn pontifical Requiem Mass was offered by Cardinal Spellman (though Toscanini had never been noticeably religious). His body will be taken to Milan for burial. Arturo Toscanini's epitaph might best...