Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge, the Public Orator said of him (in Latin): "The truth is he himself showed such an example of kindly wisdom, such a combination of serious purpose, humanity and courtesy that the others soon had no thought in their minds save to labor with one common will for the success of all." His tact, humor and sincerity prompted a British novelist to say: "No American visiting this country has had his unfailing gift of saying the right thing at the right time...
expected to know his place." Pursued Romains (in Town & Country): "He is granted the right to hold an opinion on writing; he may even be allowed a word upon success in general, figuring in a magazine symposium alongside a stockbroker, an advertising man, and a manufacturer of elastic girdles. But his credit stops there...
...year-old Copland could be considered the top U.S. composer, the small stature of his colleagues had something to do with it. His technical competence far outshone his inventiveness. His first popular success, El Salon Mexico (1936), was full of Mexican folk tunes. He borrowed folk and hymn themes for his ballet scores (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) and his movie music (Our Town). The Third Symphony, which Boston heard last week, varied from tenderness to brassy choirs which led a Boston Post critic to call it "Shostakovich in the Appalachians...
...however excellent the production and performance, the essence of great dramatic poetry is verbal, and the bottom of this play's new success was that Andre Gide had kept the greatness of great words in a new language. Samples: ¶ O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! (Chair trap massive, Oh! Si tu pouvais fondre, T'evaporer, te resoudre en rosee...
...success in the U.S. and his opportunity for service there as "ambassador of interracial justice and charity," Father Matthews' heart and head belong to Trinidad and Mount St. Benedict. He looks forward to his return next spring to continue working on his chief study-the cultural forms of his own people as a matrix of the Gospel of Christ...