Word: sparkingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public-works projects. In keeping with a grand design sketched out by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson-who was working on the economy when not busy with space-Senate Democrats were drafting six other recession-inspired bills, calling for increased federal spending for: roads (Gore), housing (Alabama's John Spark-man), hospitals (Alabama's Lister Hill), reclamation (New Mexico's Clinton Anderson), flood control (Oklahoma's Robert Kerr), aid to small business (Arkansas' William Fulbright...
...three hours' notice and without rehearsal, she sang Donna Anna when Eleanor Steber fell ill), while maintaining her own schedule of Toscas, Leonoras and Aïdas. Unfortunately, there is more drama in her last-minute appearances offstage than on: her singing, often attractive enough, has little spark, often wins only polite applause. But she has unshatterable poise, knows how to act, makes intelligent use of a wide-ranging voice...
...first to spark a widely successful management course was Harvard Business School, which set up an advanced program for the Government in World War II to train executives in new production techniques. Out of that early course grew Harvard's famous "case-method" system for business, in which executives grapple with actual problems drawn from the business world. Today Harvard offers a solid fare of executive courses, and many other universities have followed its lead with top management programs, notably M.I.T., Columbia, Stanford, Michigan State, and Rutgers. For his excursion into the halls of ivy, the corporate...
When Kansas Millionaire Bill Graham tried to spark a brush fire for capitalism in socialist-minded India last summer (TIME, Aug. 12), the government poured on cold water. Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari and others refused to see him. But last week Graham's dream of financing capital-starved entrepreneurs ("The small guy who's on the ball") and making a profit to boot had become too important to ignore. When Graham landed in India with funds raised from free-enterprising Americans, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself sat down with the tireless enterpriser for a half-hour...
Into that cloud may come "a sudden stirring with no forewarning, instantly springing toward God as a spark from a coal." Still higher than the experience of this "sharp dart of longing love" is God's "beam of ghostly light," but of this the author forbears to speak...