Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first," Lewis wrote the U.M.W. membership with the familiar flourish, "your wages were low, your hours long, your labor perilous, your health disregarded, your children without opportunity, your union weak, your fellow citizens and public representatives indifferent to your wrongs." But John L., born in Lucas, Iowa, Feb. 12, 1880, a Welsh coal miner's son who quit school after the seventh grade to dig coal in underground pits, a union organizer with a shock of red hair and red eyebrows and a Shakespearian style, fought his way to the top of the U.M.W. to change all that...
ELIZABETH THE GREAT, by Elizabeth Jenkins. A string of brilliant miniatures of the Queen who said of herself: "I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king...
...Orchestra was highly imaginative, but the Orchestra's response to his direction was often disappointing, for one reason or another. In the Mozart Piano concerto (K 271, in E flat) the very excellence of the soloist, a young Frenchwoman named Eveylne Crochet, made the Orchestra's contribution seem rather weak. Mile. Crochet's reading, a compendium of elegant phrasing, effortless roulades, and delicious, unforced tone (for which the piano is probably due some credit) was the performance of a knowing, sensitive professional. But the Orchestra is only a good civic ensemble, and hazy string entrances or out-of-tune winds...
Everything except overconfidence will be on the Crimson squash team's side today, when it meets a weak Amherst squad in an away contest. Since its 8-1 victory over Navy, Harvard ranks as one of the Eastern Intercollegiate League's most dangerous title contenders. Having lost to Navy by an identical score, Amherst is a definite underdog in today's contest...
...University, awarded an honorary degree to Nehru, who was making his first visit to the U.S. After Eisenhower moved on to the presidency of the U.S., Nehru's private comments about him were not always flattering. Though recognizing Ike's inherent goodness, Nehru nevertheless thought him a weak leader, dominated by the "negative" foreign policy of John Foster Dulles...