Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gentlemen of Naples undertake to disprove the theory that all women are faithless by pretending to go off to the wars and returning in disguise as two gentlemen from Albania lately landed from a balloon, lay siege to each other's sweethearts, and, to their own discomfiture, succeed-has seldom been more merrily staged. Under the direction of Peter Herman Adler, Mozart's music was kept feather-light and crystal-clean. Soprano Phyllis Curtin and Mezzo Frances Bible were as pretty a brace of slim beauties as ever taunted a gallant; Tenor John Alexander and Baritone Mac Morgan...
...facing the Griffins. Not only was the Constitution on their littered trail, but Marvin Griffin had stirred up a more dangerous foe. Aware that Georgia's strongman, U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge, had hand-picked Lieutenant Governor Ernest Vandiver as the next governor (TIME, Feb. 17), Griffin-who cannot succeed himself-nevertheless picked and began pushing his own nominee. In retaliation the Talmadge-dominated state senate ordered an investigation of the governor's administration. And if there are any political bodies buried around, the Talmadge fans will know where and how to find them...
...spun out the tale of its own deception. Thus the many-mirrored story was less a study of tragedy's flowering than of the dark roots from which tragedy grows. To translate this study into dance movement was an uncommonly difficult task, and Choreographer Graham did not always succeed. With Clytemnestra (Martha Graham herself) at the ballet's eye, the black-gowned women and loinclothed men about her moved in an unhurried, severely ritualistic style that became occasionally monotonous in the long preludes to violence. But the economy of movement also produced fascinating effects, such as the shuttling...
...these days of high fashion and anti-recession spending, America expects every tasteful consumer to do his bit. Women, too, with their majority holding in the nation's private wealth, must cooperate if these campaigns are to succeed. Radcliffe, unfortunately, is not pulling...
...control but getting help from MIDEC's capital and technical know-how. To old Middle East hands, the idea of Westerners joining in an Arab-controlled enterprise is as dangerous as a camel's kiss, yet MIDEC has received a rousing welcome and thinks it can succeed...