Word: windup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once. Attlee complained, Bevan "sprang to the dispatch box and gave me a public affront." Bevan had also publicly chided his party leaders for being absent from the House of Commons during one of his speeches. "That," said Attlee, "was unpardonable." Attlee's windup revealed his own misgivings over his handling of the Bevan revolt. "I have tried and failed to get unity ... I have been abused for not taking action, for weakness and dithering." Now he was taking action. He demanded the highest penalty: "Withdrawal of the whip," i.e., releasing Nye from party discipline...
...were the five Harriman grandchildren as frequent visitors, plus her personal collection of top American paintings. Marie, who ran a successful Manhattan art gallery for twelve years after her marriage to "Honest Ave," intended to leave their famed accumulation of French modern art at their Manhattan home. At the windup of her tour through her newest home (as of Dec. 31), Marie told beaming Frances Dewey: "It's charming, terribly attractive...
...Rome Opera). He has had his visible actors synchronize their lips and slow-motion movements with the music. Unfortunately, his $3,000,000 budget apparently made no allowances for up-to-date recording equipment. Too often Aida rasps and burbles as though it were being played on a windup phonograph with a rusty needle-and another low blow is dealt to grand opera...
Heavenly Gesture. The performance was not only a resounding windup for Tanglewood's most successful season in its 17 years; it was a special victory for Composer Berlioz (1803-69). The respectable musical world has long regarded him as the giant who never grew up, an uneven talent full of romantic excesses ("Berlioz," mocked his fellow composer Franz Liszt, "liked to fancy himself draining Death's chalice to the dregs in a gloomy cavern, surrounded by Italian bandits, and gasping out a final curse upon mankind"). But slowly the critical tide has been turning. This year, following...
...Fourth-of-July orator, so the oft-told story goes, was delivering a speech about Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln when, ready for the windup, he forgot their names. Glancing quickly toward the notes stuffed in his inside coat pocket, the flustered speaker hurriedly praised "those great American statesmen, Hart Schaffner and Marx...