Word: swifter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next opera." Failing in his lifelong search for a girl who combined frailness with sensuality, he built those qualities into a procession of operatic heroines - Manon Lescaut, Mimi in Bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly, Liù in Turandot. His obsession with swift love followed by swifter death gave his work a narrow emotional range, a failing of which he was conscious. He envied Wagner his heroic themes and majestic brasses, idolized Verdi's poetic tragedies, in later life even made an effort to understand the moderns (although on first hearing he thought Stravinsky's Sacre...
...news had its compensations. The increase in unemployment compensation was big partly because 7,000,000 more workers now have the protection of jobless pay than in the 1954 recession. Likewise, inventory liquidation will allow a swifter increase in production later...
...entered into it. After all, what's a woman for?" But in dedicating Son of Perdition, Cozzens was more gallant. The flyleaf is inscribed to her with these lines from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Outliving her beauty's outward, with a mind/ That doth renew swifter than blood decays." Cozzens recalls: "Mother almost died when I married a Jew, but later when she saw I was being decently cared for, she realized that it was the best thing that could have happened...
...more powerful, feared, hated-and needed-than ever before. The sponsor has always demanded omens that his money is well spent. With the money going ever faster (a weekly half-hour show can now cost a sponsor close to $3,000,000 for a 39-week season), he demands swifter omens of how his investment is faring. In 1956 sponsors dropped some 50 network programs because the ratings fell so low that, by Madison Avenue's sacrosanct formula of "cost-per-thousand," the price of reaching a given number of viewers rose correspondingly too high...
...Rogers, "we cannot be satisfied with the rate of reduction." Adding his voice to that of his deputy, Attorney General Herbert Brownell told the lawyers that the backlog was the department's No. 1 problem. "The immediate objective of the 94 U.S. Attorneys," he said, "is to obtain swifter justice in the courts of our land...