Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words of research from Show Business Reporters Serrell Hillman, Dorothea Bourne and Ruth Brine, who spent a total of 30 hours with their subject. Dick Seamon, a newsman who can write equally well about Willie Mays, Shirley MacLaine or Anne Bancroft, epitomizes TIME'S regard for versatility and breadth, is a modern, journalistic example of the sort of writer Ben Jonson admired some 350 years ago. Wrote Jonson: "And though a man be more prone and able for one kind of writing than another, yet he must exercise...
...School's morale remains unmatched by any other department at Princeton, Carmichael claims. "Here," he explains, "there is more interest in work than among typical Princeton undergraduates." Absorbed by studies that have both immediacy and breadth, the Woodrow Wilson concentrator does not, Carmichael adds, "regard working...
Friday night's short but challenging program featured Landon Young as soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. His performance gave a continual impression of control and breadth, of getting far above the notes and phrases to achieve a coherent interpretation of each movement. There was a satisfying bigness about his reading that fitted this concerto perfectly, while not sloughing over the more lyrical passages. The second theme of the opening movement, particularly, with its appealing soulfulness, had a tender, longing quality without being sentimental. One could have wished for just a little less deliberateness...
...Festival, however, was not a series of rallies--only the four were staged in ten days. The total impression of the Festival was diffuse, ranging over the entire breadth of Vienna, and, for the average impressionable delegate, an orgy of cultural events dominated by the Russians (e.g. the Leningrad Ballet) and the Communist Chinese (e.g. the Peking Circus). Dozens of such events were running each day in all available auditoriums in Vienna, and in the evenings Eastern and African folk performers appeared in neighborhood parks across Vienna...
...Nose for Starvation. He showed the breadth of his fiscal shrewdness when he returned the $6.6 million Vanguard program to the Navy and said: "Figure it out again. You're way too low. I think it will be over $100 million." Final cost of the trouble-trailed Vanguard program: $110 million...