Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congratulated his alma mater on its 151st anniversary. "The graduate of West Point," he wrote, "modest as may be his own natural endowments, goes through life ever facing a stern personal challenge-can he live up to the record of those who have worn the cadet grey before him? Happily for West Point and for our country, the building record of today's graduates is equal to that of their predecessors. A salute to all of them...
With that formal admonition, the Master of Lowell House dismissed the problem of snowballs and broken windows for another winter. If some House members thought they detected a glint of humor beneath the stern formality, Perkins probably would not dispute it. For twelve years he has guided Lowell House with a light but firm hand, and likes the results. House members share his satisfaction...
...fact that there was a semblance of order at all-in finance or in government-was still something of a miracle. It was due, in almost every respect, to a remarkable old man: President Syngman Rhee, 78, stern fighter for Korea's freedom over more than half a century...
Tonight We Sing (20th Century-Fox) is an opulent, star-spangled, two-hour film concert featuring the famed clients, past & present, of famed Impresario S. (for Sol) Hurok. The picture offers such flesh & blood talents as Tamara Toumanova, Isaac Stern, Roberta Peters, and the sound-track voice of Jan Peerce. It also fondly recalls such historic Hurok clients as Anna Pavlova. Eugéne Ysaÿe and Feodor Chaliapin...
Tonight We Sing is at its slickly Technicolored best when it makes music. As Russian Ballerina Anna Pavlova, Toumanova dances the famed Dying Swan. As noted Belgian Violinist Eugéne Ysaÿe, Isaac Stern plays a Wieniawski Concerto and Sarasate's Ziegeunerweisen. As Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, in a blond wig, swaggers off with the show by giving a lustily humorous performance and singing snatches from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Gounod's Faust, and a chorus of The Volga Boatman. These latter-day artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using...