Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says one Harvard faculty member who took an active role in White's campaign, "Sure, before I started to do some work for him I thought he was just bland and craggy but he's a smart man--and a good man--with lots of very good ideas." Berkeley Rice, who did a long story on the campaign for the New York Times Magazine, commented "White suffers from a seemingly incurable and largely undeserved case of blandness...
After George left this country, which was twenty years ago after being called a Communist and finding that the smart New York musical circles might tolerate a Jew but not a Negro, he came to Europe to conduct the great symphonies and operas. He studied under von Karajan then and now the foremost conductor in Germany, who wrote that George is hochbegabt, highly gifted, very fine praise indeed. I have seen this letter and one from Richter, the pianist, saying how much he enjoyed performing with George. Once the Emperor of Ethiopia come to Berlin and admired Geogre's work...
...role one of her specialties. Her rather metallic intonations are warmed by the richness of Rolando Panerai's baritone and Carlo Bergonzi's tenor, while Conductor Sir John Barbirolli exposes enough colors in the opera's palette to prove that it may not be so smart to sneer at Puccini's musicality...
...fact, the reasons for the Negroes' defeat and Williams' victory were more complex than mere fraud. For one thing, many Negroes voted for white candidates over Negroes because, as Evers conceded, "a lot of Negroes just can't imagine any Negro being half as smart as a white...
...Late is a one-gag show that takes off when a middle-aged wife tells her very middle-aged husband that they are to have another child. Papa-to-be protests: "When he gets out of college, I'll be going on 83-if he's smart." Sept...