Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind him, the surf broke with the flawless rhythm of a metronome, a whispering complement to the cellist's own compelling beat. "Now we are hearing two eternal sounds." marveled Violinist Isaac Stern, "the ocean surf and great music." A rapt audience enthusiastically agreed. Caesarea's centuries-old silence had been broken by beauty...
Stand or Surrender. A man who knows the uses of power gave a stern lecture to the West last week. "Western appeasement," warned France's Charles de Gaulle, "can only divide the West as it faces ambitious imperialism. Withdrawal makes the aggressor more excited, makes him redouble his pressure. The Western powers can best serve peace by standing firm...
...best in the Sarasate Habañera and Jota Navarra-music that calls for the sort of flash and fire that have distinguished Ricci throughout his career. His admirers are drawn by the electric tension that sets him apart from two other famous San Francisco-trained prodigies-Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin, who are closer to the rhapsodic Russians in their general style...
...match to Mexico in the American Zone Davis Cup finals in Cleveland last month. Weakened by a throat infection. Ralston tossed and kicked his racket, slammed the ball into the net in disgust at his own errors, swore loudly as he fell after being faked out of position. The stern arbiters of the U.S.L.T.A. seemed unimpressed by Ralston's impeccable behavior at Longwood against the same Mexican team that beat him and McKinley at Cleveland. Nor were the prim chaperons of U.S. tennis moved by other reports that the Cleveland incident had been exaggerated. "Ralston's conduct...
...More Planes. For all its troubles, East Germany today is the sixth largest industrial manufacturer in the world (after the U.S., Russia, West Germany, Great Britain, France). Yet the stern program announced three years ago to match West German per capita consumption by 1961 failed miserably, is no longer even mentioned. Largely at fault is the huge drain on the economy resulting from shipments of heavy industrial equipment to the rest of the Soviet bloc; East Germany is the machine shop for Russia (it produces one-half of the Soviet Union's total ma chine imports) and half...