Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speeches, and keeps easy control of his temper. "I have never seen Erich pray, tremble or curse," says a fellow Socialist. Evenings he sips wine with cronies and plays skat, a German pub card game. His chauffeur-driven Mercedes fetches him to work at an unproletarian midmorning hour. A solid and comfortable householder type, if no intellectual giant, Ollenhauer pitches his appeal as a safe sort of Socialist both to Germany's middle-class voters and to workers who now have a lot more to lose than their chains...
France's Composer Francis Poulenc, 58, built a solid reputation as the composer of sophisticated vocal works, frothy, impudent ballets and opera such as Les Mamelles de Tirésias* which gaily urged its audience to "make babies now as you never have before." Sobered by his wartime experience in the resistance, he turned increasingly to more austere works, three years ago undertook an opera based on the late Georges Bernanos' reverent drama The Dialogues of the Carmelites. In one of its rare premières of modern opera, Milan's La Scala put Poulenc...
...contractor paid by the National Park Service is beginning to drag to safety some of the carved stones that are not too big to load onto trucks. Other carvings will be quarried free from the solid rock. A public campaign has been organized to raise money to supplement the Park Service's meager ($8,000) appropriation, but not all the carvings can be saved from the water. Next best is to copy them accurately, and Sculptor James Hansen and his wife Annabelle are doing this by making impressions in melted...
...epee, traditionally weak, Andre Nikitine, Bruce Parker and Dave Schwartz led to a solid 8 to 1 margin...
Behind the glamourpuss, however, there stands a solid character of many-sided balance. Bernstein is a phenomenal extra vert. In his nature, to think is to act. Until recently he never seemed to tire of doing things, handling situations, arranging schedules, playing the life of the party, being all things to all people. He lives in a vague world of superficial friendliness, where charm is an easy way of life, and genuine warmth is reserved for work. And yet, at the worst of his extravertigo, Bernstein never lost sight of his first principles: truth to his word, loyalty to friends...