Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Strauss's seldom-produced Ariadne auf Naxos, a kind of Baroque double feature, sometimes as serious as Salome, sometimes as raffish as Rosenkavalier. With Soprano Rysanek in the title role and Pittsburgh's Conductor William Steinberg in the pit, the production was a triumph...
Pusey called the Soviet satellite "a triumph of Soviet technology which points to the seriousness with which the Russians regard the technical side of education...We would do well to be as serious about our own superb and diverse enterprise as are the Russians." He stressed the importance of making a "consistent surge of effort" towards education, rather than "moving from one temporary objective to another as each emergency arises...
Dartmouth's J.V. football squad will seek to repeat its crushing 58-0 triumph of last year over the Crimson J.V. squad today. With six men remaining on the injured list, coach Norm Shepard will again be hampered in his efforts to put together a winning combination...
...shame and danger." To Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, it meant a frenzied call for a special session of Congress. To retired Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, it was merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind over universal matter-and at the same time a last-chance signal to beware of onrushing Russian technology. To the man whose job it was to speak and act for the U.S. and the free world, it was a challenge...
...spontaneity of the line made most of the audience either laugh or applaud. And with good reason. The triumph of Chayefsky realism lives in her response. The author's lines and scenes are so full of recognizable truths, of familiar details, of realism, that the audience has no trouble at all entering his play. This is an impressive skill. I wonder, though, whether the realism and the truths are not mostly too small to make powerful theater...