Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon high musical standards. Four weeks ago in the Globe, Steinberg chided Carlo Maria Giulini, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. If Danny Kaye or Victor Borge had conducted "with such crazed dislocation of tempo and with such prodigality in expression of tragic suffering and deep knee-bends," wrote Steinberg, "the audience would have been in stitches." Two weeks ago in the Herald Traveler, Gelles remarked that Guest Conductor Seiji Ozawa "has shrunk from a lightweight with charm and real elegance to a conductor whose performances are technically inaccurate and emotionally indifferent...
Friends of the symphony bridled. Several orchestra members signed an anti-Steinberg telegram to the Globe. The protest went unheeded. Similarly, a Symphony Orchestra board of trustees member wrote to Herald Traveler Publisher Harold E. Clancy expressing dismay that the paper had hired "one of [Steinberg's] young imitators. We think that perhaps the Herald might be in a position to alter its course...
...criticism. The committee called on sellers to "expand information regarding safety, performance and durability of products." Nader insists that he is not "antibusiness" but simply "pro-people." He often jokes that he is as much a foe of the funeral industry as Jessica Mitford but that while she only wrote a book, "I'm trying to reduce the number of their customers...
...Nader had his ammunition. He sent a summary of the study to the House Agriculture Committee, which was about to hold "clean meat" hearings for the first time in eight years. He quickly wrote an article for The New Republic titled "We're Back in the Jungle"?a title that echoed Upton Sinclair's classic indictment of the meat industry 60 years ago, The Jungle. He sent press releases to newspapers located near the worst plants. As a result, Nader was deluged by letters from meat handlers, meat buyers and anonymous Agriculture Department officials. He gave tips...
...first inkling that all was not well with the Corvair's suspension system came from a disgruntled General Motors auto worker who wrote him a letter. In Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader went on to single out the sporty car's rear-suspension system as an example of hazardous compromise between engineering and styling. At certain speeds and tire pressures, or in certain types of turns, he charged, the rear wheels could "tuck