Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rickett's motive is interpreted by the less credulous as a desire to save Ethiopia, and incidentally his concession, from Italian rapine by putting new hope into the elements opposed to invasion. He had no success whatever in official [British] quarters, but he does seem to have inspired a certain amount of 'publicity...
...florid, square-jawed Irishman, easygoing, stubborn, hot-tempered and prodigiously energetic, Cochrane's success as a manager is as hard to analyze as it is apparent. He makes no parade of the thinking processes which it takes to run a big-league ball club but if he is never seen like Connie Mack waving intricately scrawled scorecards, it does not mean that the moves of a baseball game are not as definitely outlined in his mind as those of a chess game in the brain of a blindfolded expert. His players like him because he discusses plans, theories...
...Cochrane's success as a manager is hard to define, his popularity in Detroit is not. Twenty-five years ago, the city proudly adopted "Dynamic Detroit'' as a slogan. This ambitious expression of civic pride came to have a somewhat painful sound when the automobile business collapsed in 1932 and when the closing of every bank in town on St. Valentine's Day, 1933, precipitated a national panic. Mickey Cochrane's arrival in Detroit coincided roughly with the revival of the automobile industry and the first signs of revived prosperity. His determined, jolly New England...
...success of General William Booth Enters Into Heaven after 1913 lifted him to an eminence almost as unhappy as his isolation had been. After his marriage in 1925, the responsibilities of a family wore on him heavily, since even at the height of his fame he could earn only $1,500 a year. With only $76 in his possession, $4.000 in debt and with a wife and two children to care for, he grew increasingly melancholy, developed delusions, sometimes heard voices plotting his death. He believed that the Jews were responsible for his failures, grew increasingly violent as he denounced...
Naturally the great interest in this production must focus upon Gershwin's music, for the libretto is but a direct translation of Heyword's familiar dramatic success. It is impossible, however, especially after a single hearing, to consider the score as an entity apart. Profoundly inspired by the rich drama of "Porgy", Gershwin has blended his music so utterly into the soul of the play that it combines with the stage actions to produce a single, deeply stirring impression...