Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technique was old, and old Darryl Zanuck knew it well. First the publicity flashbacks that recite your past glory and present strength, then the stern, quiet conversations, then finally and with trumpets, the march into town. Under the covering fire of telegrams, Zanuck arrived in New York last week, and three days later he was president of 20th Century-Fox. His victory was shared by Spyros Skouras, deposed last month from his 20-year regime as Fox's impresario, and it was a complete victory over the Wall Street moneymen who had shoved Skouras aside...
...price for gold. Unconvinced by Administration statements that devaluation was out of the question, the speculators have been busily exchanging dollars for gold bullion or, as a second-best hedge, buying gold mine stocks. Then, last week, President Kennedy took advantage of the Telstar communications satellite to deliver a stern-faced warning, witnessed by millions of Europeans, that "those who speculate against the dollar are going to lose." Next day, gold shares on the London Stock Exchange nosedived. The day after, the price of bullion on the London gold market followed suit (see chart...
...Exeter, where young Rufus had gone on a scholarship. He is reading and liking Beau Geste, Elizabeth and Her German Garden, finding Sinclair Lewis "turning rancid'' in Elmer Gantry, moving on to the discovery of the "terrific" Ernest Hemingway (who does, however, earn a boy's stern moral disapproval as "one of the crowd of degenerate Americans who settled . . . in Paris after the war"). Dreiser's English is "bum," and John Dos Passos rouses a boy's puritanism with the "unalleviatedly filthy" Manhattan Transfer...
Melbourne scored his biggest political success with Queen Victoria. When she succeeded to the throne at 18, Melbourne became her mentor, tried to soften her stern morality. In his wry way, he explained politics to her: "People who talk much of railroads and bridges are generally Liberals." In turn, the Queen adored Melbourne, disliked the less gallant Tories. But in 1841, his last year as Prime Minister, Melbourne unhappily noticed the change Victoria was making in the temper of the country. "This damned morality," he exploded, "will ruin everything...
...95th birthday-she died in 1945 -the East Berlin Academy of the Arts had on view 106 of her works, all but a few in stark black and white. Since she had spoken so lovingly of the proletariat, the Communists have tried to make much of her, but their stern and sterile ideology would hardly have found comfort in Köthe Kollwitz' emotional utopianism. She was a woman who took every quiver of human agony upon herself, and then transferred it to paper again and again...