Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout, the deep, ringing speaking voice of Moses and the soaring tenor of Aaron were heard simultaneously. The orchestra played in a web of complicated polyphony, and the chorus sang in as many as twelve parts. Some found the rainbow shower of sound to their liking; others were puzzled and distracted, wondered whether the oratorio-like work was an opera at all. But Paris' Le Monde called it a miracle. The Neue Züricher Zeitung found the score "an ingenious summary of all that makes Schoenberg the founder of a new musical language." That language-like the words...
...businessman was more global-minded than Sosthenes Behn, who created the world web of $760 million International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Behn stretched his communications empire from Antwerp to Osaka, steered it through 34 years of war, revolution, boom and bust, and boom again. Always somehow able to snatch cash from disaster, he had a secret: a skill at diplomacy that few foreign ministers could match, a grip on his company that only a last tycoon could keep...
...Web. From then on the showdown was inevitable. In early 1954, as chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Joe joined battle with the Army over a none-too-bright McCarthy staffer named G. David Schine, of the millionaire Schine hotel family. Army Draftee Schine, Joe charged, was being used by the Army as a hostage to keep the McCarthy committee from finding out, among other things, why a brigadier general named Ralph Zwicker had permitted the honorable discharge of a Red-tinted Army dentist named Irving Peress. For 36 days televised hearings made Joe's nasal rhythms...
...limelight sat McCarthy's chief aide, clever Roy Cohn, who, with his buddy Dave Schine, had earned the name "Junketeering Gumshoe" on his "investigating" trips abroad; Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, the "nice guy" who had muddled his way into a political web; the shrewd, smooth-talking Senators Ev Dirksen and Karl Mundt; the lantern-jawed Tennessean Ray Jenkins, who as committee counsel peppered away at all comers; and adept, relaxed Boston Lawyer Joe Welch, attorney for the Army...
Early morning is web-building time, so when Dr. Bercel opens the air-conditioned room the next day, he can tell at a glance how the spiders reacted to their meals. Most striking results so far have been seen in spiders fed with serum taken from patients suffering from the catatonic form of schizophrenia. The spiders seem to become catatonic too. They move listlessly and spend much time in their houses; the webs they spin are like the last vestiges of ragged lace. The spiders' reaction, like that of human volunteers injected with schizophrenic serum (TIME, May 14), shows...