Word: overwhelmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tormé can look back with ease upon a bountiful life in music: lots of money, dozens of cars, two wives, three psychiatrists. In person, though, he has always been a sour-luck man whose glance wilts a flower. As a result, he managed to overwhelm his great talents as crooner, composer, actor, drummer, pianist and arranger and become an engaging failure. Good old Mel, his friends in music say, the public never liked him. But he is also a singer of jazz, and in that difficult and unfriendly medium, he has lately become one of the best around...
Hopeless from the Start. On the whole, the audiences seemed to like the absence of decorations that overwhelm the dancers in Bolshoi productions such as Spartacus. Said Composer Aram Khachaturian : "If Balanchine had done the choreography for my Spartacus, it wouldn't have been a flop." Balanchine politely disagreed. Spartacus was hopeless from the start, he said, because it was based on a false conception. Like much of Russian ballet, it subordinated music and dancing to plot and decoration, whereas ballet should be music and dance - first, last and foremost...
...familiar thatch of thick brown hair, the outthrust jaw, the meat-chopping gestures, the flat Boston accent. A voter could close his eyes, listen to the talk of "Cuber" and "Asier" and swear the President was on the platform. But these qualities alone were not enough to overwhelm Eddie McCormack, 39, another affable, handsome Irishman and the nephew of House Speaker John W. McCormack. In the end, Teddy won because he staged a campaign unmatched and unmatchable in its energy, enterprise and sheer intensity of purpose...
After losing all but one of six inter-collegiate matches in the South, the varsity tennis team returned North Saturday to overwhelm Army, 9-0, at West Point...
...advocates maintain that the nuclear deterrent must have the proper "mix" of bombers and missiles to overwhelm an enemy with a variety of weapons systems. If one does not work, another will-and the RS-70 is a whole new weapons system in itself. Those same advocates point out that production will stop this year on the Air Force's last two bombers-the 600-m.p.h. B-52 and the 1,300-m.p.h. B-58. If the RS-70 is held back, they say, the entire U.S. bomber fleet will eventually be obsolete...