Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most classic campaigns, Dayan's Sinai triumph rested heavily on surprise. "Nasser disposed his troops very well," said an Israeli colonel. "Egyptian preparations were quite logical. Our plans were not." But more than anything else, the Israelis, inferior to the Egyptians in number and equipment, relied on the kind of dashing, hard-driving tactics with which George Patton confounded the Germans in his 1944 armored dash across Europe. Israeli units which outran their supply continued to push forward as long as they had ammunition, and at least one battalion fought for two days without food...
...life they want to live. Bick Benedict, the American male-and-father image, reaches two conclusions--that he likes the simple life and that nothing in his life has gone according to plan. Hollywood, with its obvious delight in the movie's extravaganza and its faith in the ultimate triumph of American idealism, succeeds thoroughly in giving him the lie. For the Giant thesis is that everything will turn out wealthy, and all right...
...immensity of the Eisenhower triumph made it inconceivable that he would not carry other Republicans with him. But millions of U.S. voters split their tickets in an astonishing personal tribute to the President. Thus, while Ike won Washington State handily and missed only by a hairsbreadth in Missouri, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson and Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr. notably wrecked their Republican opponents by rolling up more votes than Ike in their states. More than 15 hours after the polls closed, his party was still in a struggle for control of both...
...underground against him. But in the end she repents, publicly confesses her sins and goes to the fire with her lover, who, for obscure reasons, is ready to die with the girl with whom he did not wish to live. Norma is usually called a singers' opera, a triumph of bel canto, and it does have magnificent vocal passages, notably two duets for the two leading female singers. But (as Bernard Shaw once said of the young Verdi) Bellini's orchestra sounds like a giant guitar; it plinkety-plinks through embarrassing military airs, mindless rages and cloying romances...
...Philadelphia, the same day, a lanky, 22-year-old pianist named Philippe Entre-mont had his own triumph. When he auditioned for the Philadelphia Orchestra two years ago. Conductor Eugene Ormandy called him "one of the great younger pianists of our day." hired him on the spot. Last week Entremont made his Philadelphia debut-with a spiky-rhythmed modern concerto by France's Andre Jolivet, and Rachmaninoff's caramel-flavored...