Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Help for North Korea? Americans are rightly famous, and beloved, for their generosity; but there was no genuine or Christian charity in Mr. Dulles' discriminatory promise of lavish material help for the rehabilitation of South Korea and not of North Korea. The American food parcel can be as true a symbol of Christian love as the cup of cold water; but the political, and even electoral, strings attached to such aid in Asia, in Italy, and in Berlin have robbed the gift of its virtue and induced either sycophancy or cynicism in those who receive it. The Good Samaritan...
...Radio) is "dedicated to the proposition that the theater, the people in it, the magic world of the stage, are glamorous and exciting to everyone, because, deep down, we're all stage-struck too." Deep down, CBS was also struck by the notion that a lavish, hour-long program crammed with famed Broadway names and excerpts from hit shows could do wonders for radio. Stage-Struck (which is shopping for a sponsor) is an exciting guided tour of backstage Broadway, from casting office to dressing room. On his first assignment, Emcee Mike Wallace, smoothly exuding an out-of-towner...
...Paris' Grand Palais last week, 105 automakers from eight countries put their prize products on display in Europe's most lavish motorcar exhibit, the 40th Salon d'Automobile et du Cycle. While car prices ran as high as $14,000, it was the "baby cars" that stole the show...
Freedom meant, among other things, freedom to dance how and what the Rabovskys wish. Russian ballet companies stick closely to the classic repertory, e.g., Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Les Sylphides; in lavish productions with casts which regularly numbered several hundred, Nora and Istvan were only two of more than a dozen leading dancers, in Leningrad took leading roles only about four times a month. Many of the ballets for which they had been trained are now banned; Ravel's Bolero is "erotic," Stravinsky's Petrouchka is "decadent." Nora also likes to jitterbug, but when she tried...
...issue of public power is political dynamite in some sections of the U.S. Opponents are vehement in believing that federal control of power is (as Socialists freely admit) a basic step toward socialism. Yet the lavish public-power projects of the New and Fair Deals brought regional benefits which kept many a Congressman in office for years. TVA started the South's industrial boom; the Columbia River dams rejuvenated the economy of the Northwest. Last week, when Interior Secretary Douglas McKay issued his long-awaited statement on the power policy of the Eisenhower Administration, politicians from Nashville to Seattle...