Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approaching a form, which is extremely difficult to handle well, the composer has added to his problem by choosing to satirize the very form of opera buffa itself. The result is a complete triumph. Using his modest orchestra with facility and great wit, and demonstrating a sensitive awareness of the comic possibilities of vocal writing, Mr. Perkins has composed a score which is fully as funny as the satiric libretto by Wayne Shirley...
Nikita Khrushchev is a bull who is not particular about which china shop he bustles through. Fresh from his triumphal "election" as Soviet Premier and accompanied by his latest favorite, First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov (see box, p. 24), Khrushchev descended on Budapest, scene of his most dubious triumph. He bounced out of his TU-104 jetliner, kissed Hungarian Party Chief Janos Kadar and Premier Ferenc Munnich on both cheeks, and with a wave of a black Homburg. told 4,000 stone-faced Hungarians: "The Soviet Union and the other Socialist countries are your most loyal friends." Replied the sallow...
...that Spain would turn over to Mohammed the Southern Spanish Protectorate, the tiny wedge of territory between Morocco and the Spanish Sahara. The sparsely populated territory is all but worthless, and Spain had decided to give it up all of two years ago, but to Moroccans it was another triumph...
...partly the result of an inexorable trend that first revealed itself in the indecisive 1957 election, partly a stunning personal triumph for Diefenbaker. Barely nine months in office with a scant plurality government, he had stepped up Canada's already generous social welfare benefits, provided new government assistance for hard-pressed prairie farmers, injected fresh government funds to spur housing construction. A few days after taking office, he called on his fellow Canadians to do more of their buying in Britain, less in the U.S., and by year's end some shift appeared to be taking place. Beyond...
...rationalizes his murderous bent. What is even more remarkable is Author Reid's ability to create a feeling for the land itself, to blend a lyrical, near-poetic portrait of a primitive mind with his brutal subject matter. Unashamedly contrived, his book is quite simply a brief imaginative triumph...