Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Personal Triumph. Pompidou, meanwhile, seemed to be everywhere, and he neither used notes nor hesitated to draft indictments. He suggested that Poher, if elected, would have to battle an overwhelmingly Gaullist Assembly. By holding up this specter, Pompidou successfully managed to appeal to what Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber calls France's "overriding concern" with stability. Not the least of his weapons was to mention the virtual necessity of Poher's calling new parliamentary elections should he win: having voted eleven times since De Gaulle came to power, France is tired of elections...
Better Days. Musically, all three performances were an unabashed triumph as well as a fitting tribute to one of the world's great musical theaters. "Paris, London, St. Petersburg and Milan all claim to have the best opera houses in the world," said Giuseppe Verdi in 1874. "Yet I would concede this honor only to Vienna...
...Nemperor Holdings, the successor to Epstein's Nems Enterprises, was sold by his family in February to London's Triumph Investment Trust. Nemperor collects all the fees for the Beatles' record, stage and film performances, then takes a 25% cut and splits the rest between the Beatles and their companies...
Since Epstein was dead, the Beatles reasoned, why not reverse the sequence of payment? When they proposed to take in the gross themselves and disburse Nemperor's 25%, Triumph went to court. Until the fight is settled, Electrical and Musical Industries, Ltd., which produces and markets the Beatle recordings in Britain through the Apple label, has frozen all royalties. The total tied up is now about...
...more exactly some of his readers, smile and purr that way." When as a young man in Berlin, Nabokov decided to translate an English masterpiece into Russian, the book he chose was Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps he knew, even then, that the best way for an artist to triumph over time was to vanish like the Cheshire cat, leaving only a smile behind...