Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stirring Vision. In his application of naked power, Johnson is an acknowledged virtuoso as his Viet Nam critics ruefully concede. Despite thunderous criticism of his intervention in the Dominican Republic, the President's swift application of military strength followed by an intense diplomatic campaign proved, in the end, a successful maneuver. He has also applied indirect pressure with superb efficacy. Twice he used it to avert a war over Cyprus. His historic hot-line exchange with Kosygin during the Arab-Israeli War contained that conflict on terms acceptable to both the U.S. and Russia. Johnson's artful cajolery ended...
...classics" or not, most any show that replaces the dreary situation comedies is a welcome relief. Most notably, ABC's replay of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory, powered by the virtuoso performance of Geraldine Page, is one of the finest dramas ever to appear on TV, in season...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Virtuoso Teacher" shows both aspects of Concert Violinist Joseph Fuchs's professional life: at work readying two of his Juilliard students for a music competition, and in concert with Yehudi Menuhin last summer at the Bath Festival...
With the Crimson trailing, 8-5, Harvard's Bill Wilson carried in a tying 3-point try in the second half. Wilson displayed virtuoso defensive kicking through the game, as Harvard remained undefeated for the Fall season...
...crooned the loveliest of his ballads, Yesterday, to the accompaniment of a string octet-a novel and effective backing that gave birth to an entire new genre, baroque-rock. Still another form, raga-rock, had its origins after George Harrison flipped over Indian music, studied with Indian sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar, and introduced a brief sitar motif on the 1965 recording Norwegian Wood. Now everybody's making with the sitar...