Word: careerist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking as if she has just said something brilliant.) And scarcely a scene goes right for Director Henry (The Bravados) King. The principals stumble around in patent and sometimes comical confusion. Deborah Kerr is a fine, sensitive actress, but when she tries to play Sheilah as a hard-lipped careerist, she looks like a nice little girl about to say boo to a goose. Gregory Peck tries painfully hard to be Fitzgerald, but manages no more than a nightclub imitation of an intellectual...
...Appointed able Foreign Service Careerist John D. Jernegan, a Middle East expert and minister-counselor of mission in Rome since 1955, as ambassador to revolutionary Iraq, replacing Waldemar J. Gallman, who had resigned...
...nippers" (cane on the hand) to his boys when they muck up a stanza from Shelley's To a Skylark or cannot explain the meaning of the Feast of Lupercal (a Roman fertility rite*), but he walks in fear of Father Alphonsus McSwiney, Dean of Discipline, a clerical careerist and bully whose belief it is that "no boy [is] stouter than a good cane" and that a man is, after all, only a layman. Dev knows less about fertility rites than the boys. At 37, he has never made love to a woman ("It was the education in Ireland...
...composers patriotically hymned Soviet heroes during World War II, and the good will they thus banked at the Kremlin gave them a brief period of postwar freedom. But by 1948, an iron hand had closed tightly around Soviet composers. The hand was that of Andrei Zhdanov, cat-cruel Politburo careerist whose ear for music had been destroyed long before by the din of dialectical crossfire. Zhdanov in effect put all Russian composers on trial, including the three modern giants-Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian. The charges: "formalism" (i.e., art for art's sake, individuality, experimentation) and lack...
Died. Mamoru Shigemitsu, 69, durable, one-legged (from a 1932 bomb- throwing) diplomat who signed Japan's 1945 surrender aboard the Missouri, served twice as Foreign Minister (1943-45, 1954-56); of a heart ailment; in Yugawara, Japan. Careerist Shigemitsu was an early advocate of expansion into China, but wanted no part of a war with Britain or the U.S. He had little to say in Japan's World War II government until 1943, when apprehensive Premier Tojo wanted a moderate Foreign Minister, gave him the post. Railroaded into the war crimes trials by the Soviets (who blamed...