Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus damage the U.S. too. With a savage lack of the same logic, some Democratic Senators have dawdled with other presidential appointments far beyond the point of legitimate fact-finding-at the risk of damaging the appointee's effectiveness. Classic case: the President's nomination of Lewis Strauss, onetime (1953-58) Atomic Energy Commission chairman, to be Secretary of Commerce...
...nomination of Lewis Strauss went before the Senate's Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee more than three months ago-but the committee did not call Strauss up for questioning until mid-March. Chairman Warren Magnuson hinted at what lay ahead. "There are many, many questions," said Washington Democrat Magnuson, "and many subjects to go into." Last week the committee was still picking away at Strauss, had further hearings scheduled for this week...
Scientist Scores Strauss...
WASHINGTON, April 30--An atomic-scientist accused Lewis L. Strauss today of narrow-minded, vindictive and sometimes unethical tactics, menacing the nation's survival...
...Stravinsky and Bartok have done, to make a purely personal synthesis of the musical teachings of the past." Thompson is no conservative, however. He says quite firmly that, "Modern music and, specifically, atonal composition seems to me to be a logical development from the experimentation of Wagner and Strauss. After all there are many passages in Wagner where there is extended tonal ambiguity. From this, it is just a small step before one asks, as Schoenberg did, 'Why not do away with the concept of a key altogether...