Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transit systems have received such notoriety through song as did the Metropolitan Transit System last summer. For weeks on end, disk-jockeys played the sad tale of Charlie, trapped on the MTA, never able to escape from the miles of tunnels beneath Boston streets. The MTA, however, has received a more stinging notoriety this year--it has the dubious distinction of losing the most money of any American public transit system. Last year the MTA went $16 million into the red, which was assessed upon the 14 communities served directly by the Authority. And with recent demands made...
Emily Dickinson frequently combines the abstract and the concrete in such images as "amethyst remembrance," and "the blue and gold mistake of Indian Summer," MacLeish noted. By skillful use of tone she is then able to make these sensual counterweights to her ideas seem true...
...Federal Trade Commission was harder to sway. Last May it ordered Drug Research to stop claiming that Regimen could cause the loss of a predetermined number of pounds. After the FTC order, CBS carried Regimen spots for 13 weeks last spring and summer, then shed them. NBC continued them, mostly on Dave Garroway's Today show. But last week, 17 months after the FTC had complained that "those taking [Regimen] cannot lose weight without dieting," New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan seized a truckload of Regimen TV film commercials, books and financial records to determine...
...York Philharmonic under Guest Conductor Thomas Schippers presented Samuel Barber's rarely performed Knoxville: Summer of 1915, set to the prose poem by James Agee, novelist and film critic who died in 1955. Conductor Schippers provided a well-balanced performance, nicely graduated to Soprano Leontyne Price's clear and controlled reading of the text. If the piece itself had a weakness, it was the tendency to overly luxuriant melody, at odds with the simplicity and the subtle rhythm of the language. Example: the line "he has coiled the hose'' had Soprano Price soaring dramatically over...
...take off on any subject from cider to Columbus. He stirred the school to start a scholarly magazine, to ponder a "book of the year," e.g., The Lonely Crowd; Science, Magic and Religion. He got Colby to give TV courses for credit to rural viewers, made the school a summer center for adult education (2,000 students last year...