Word: specter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera gets across to its audiences. In any case, Antheil does not have to make his living from his Volpones or from his symphonies (six so far, with a seventh in the works). His fiscal foundation: scoring an occasional Hollywood film. Besides writing crackerjack scores for such movies as Specter of the Rose, The Sniper, The Juggler, In a Lonely Place, Antheil admits that he is quietly fostering a reputation as a musical medicine man who can pull a loosely knit film together by music alone. "If I say so myself," he says, "I've saved a couple...
...specter of the U.S. in the grip of a hysterical witch hunt, of the President cowering before McCarthy's power, bears only a specter's relation to reality. But it is the specter that flashes instantly to the British mind (and less vividly to the French and German) when America is mentioned. Americans can recognize the runaway inflation in the European myth of McCarthyism. But the myth itself was first pumped up in the U.S., and in the U.S. today McCarthyism is more myth than man-but not the less dangerous for that. The reputation of power, even...
...Communist leaders in East Germany grew sick with apprehension. Premier Otto Grotewohl publicly admitted that "temporary difficulties" had disorganized the supply of butter, margarine, sugar and meat. Then he made a public promise that sent the specter of Rudolf Slansky howling down the corridors of East German government departments: "[We] will ruthlessly remove all mistakes and shortcomings . . . Those who are guilty will face the consequences...
...Nazis coming back? Last week, commenting on West Germany's local elections, some foreign newsmen seemed to think they are. New York Timesman Drew Middleton, who has been making predictions of a Nazi revival for years, reported the specter of German fascism overhanging every ballot box. Bonn protested "splash headlines" and "one-sided reporting" by foreign correspondents. Conditions in Germany, said Konrad Adenauer's press chief, are "extraordinarily stable"; the election proved that both left and right extremists are "steadily sinking in numbers...
...trust that the specter of junior proms, Big Men on Campus fraternities and all the rest that must inevitably follow if the trend is maintained, will be sufficient to raise opposition to the twin pronged threat that confronts the College. Otherwise there may soon be no men left who remember when the words. "All College Weekend" invoked only puzzled amusement and for whom water pistols were simply a Kirkland House Aberration...