Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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St. Laurent went with his resignation ready. When he came home, Madame St. Laurent asked what kind of an impression he had made. Said St. Laurent: "Too good, I'm afraid." He had agreed to stay on as Secretary of State for External Affairs, a cabinet job that Mackenzie King...
It was the Mendelssohns' silver wedding anniversary, and their 20-year-old son Felix had put aside ideas for his third ("Scotch") symphony to fashion a little drawing-room-sized operetta for the happy occasion. It was to be sung by the Mendelssohn daughters, Fanny and Rebecka, two friends...
Last week, Manhattan's little Lemonade Opera (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947 et seq.) gave Felix Mendelssohn's 120-year-old Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (The Return from Abroad) a U.S. performance-but made no great impression with it. In fact, after three years of applauding the Lemonaders...
"Much Boomerang." At week's end, British critics found Goossens a man who "gives an impression of almost frightening efficiency," although they found his Berliners, by comparison with Beecham's Royal Philharmonic, slightly drab. Some found fault with his Mozart "Jupiter" (too dull). But after Roy Harris'...
Suspended Judgment. Next day it became evident that Hathorn's testimony-and that of other witnesses-had made a different impression at the White House. The President stepped forward at his weekly press conference, with Harry Vaughan in the background drawn up to a militiaman's position of...