Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...geriatric surgery, Dr. Toma says: "We hear and read so much about the ghastliness of old age, of the crippled and pain-racked bodies. I don't think much of this is necessary. I think we can do for the old-timers just what we do for younger people. And I think we have the proof of this at our two homes...
...seemed, for movie purposes, to be nothing but fragments and figments, DeMille turned four writers loose on the job of working up a convincing script. They telescoped the Biblical account, invented some new sequences, tinkered with motivations, added characters, threw in some dancing girls. Major change: Delilah became the younger sister of the nameless Philistine woman who was the Biblical Samson's wife. The final adaptation skillfully manages to achieve the most serviceability for the screen with the least violence to Scripture. Its best job is to create conviction in Samson's feats: e.g., his slaughter with...
...guard"-Bruno Walter, 73, Wilhelm Furtwangler, 63, Leopold Stokowski, 67-struck Boston trustees as a bit too old for the job. Another choice, says Cabot, "was to take a big gamble and pick a genius out of the pot. But we didn't see a genius among the younger...
...Strength for America"-their own confident combination of productive know-how, acre-straddling plants and free enterprise. But they also exhibited a sign of rare self-examination. They had invited as their guests 49 students, 32 college professors and school administrators from all over the U.S. From the younger generation N.A.M. hoped to get a new and fresh answer to the perennial question of N.A.M. and businessmen in general: How are we doing...
Powerful, easygoing Pancho, who played mostly by ear when he was ruling the amateurs at Forest Hills, was learning the scales the hard way as a pro. But there was no reason to think the younger man could not learn by experience. At week's end in Richmond, Va. he finally took one from the old master...