Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There could be no doubt that Communism had suffered setbacks. It had been stopped in Western Europe when it failed to wreck France's economy and lost the Italian elections. It had been slowed down, at least, in Greece, where the Red guerrillas had not scored a major success all winter. It had been, forced to watch while the Marshall Plan became reality...
Last week at Lake Success, Dr. Jan Papanek, former Czech delegate to the U.N., told how the Russians were pressuring his country. All Czech envoys, "including the Ambassador to Washington," must make daily reports to the Soviet embassies, he declared, and every Czech ambassador must be "screened" by Moscow. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, soon to return to Moscow, denounced the charges as "sheer libel." When it was moved that the Council set up a subcommittee to investigate Russian pressures at the time of the Czech coup itself, Gromyko countered by threatening a double veto...
...large, airy Comedor Popular (people's dining room)* off the Plaza Espana, in Caracas, diners smacked their lips over a favorite dish: rice and black beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain...
Tunesmith Jimmy McHugh was celebrating his silver anniversary as a Tin Pan Alley success-and all of Tin Pan Alley seemed to be joining in the celebration. Disc jockeys, bandleaders and crooners were steadily plugging the tunes the nation once knew by heart: I'm in the Mood for Love, South American Way, On the Sunny Side of the Street. But, as usual, no one was plugging them harder than rolypoly Jimmy McHugh himself...
Even after success came to Claude Debussy with his Pelleas et Melisande and Prélude a l'Après-midi d'un Faune, the bearlike composer helped support himself for nearly ten years by scribbling pieces for Paris journals. A collection of his musical criticisms called Monsieur Croche, the Dilettante Hater (Lear; $2.75), long out of print in the U.S., was republished this week. Music-lovers who admire Composer Debussy may not always agree with Critic Debussy-but some of his judgments are as luminous as his music. For his critical 'dirty work and malicious...