Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Garden, 72, whose grand-operatic stripteasing in Salome and hipslinging in Thais set standards that Met music lovers still swear by, was coming out of retirement in her native Scotland. She would make a U.S. lecture tour next fall for the National Arts Foundation...
...seemed to the 40 that it took Harvard's orotund Astronomer Harlow Shapley hours to get to the point. First he had to make a little speech, then announce the names of the eight runners-up, make them each take a bow. Finally the two winning names shot out. First prize: Dwight Taylor. Second: studious, pretty 16-year-old Caroline Stuart Littlejohn of Oklahoma City...
...show was Marcks's Holy Spring, a naked, hopeful-looking boy modeled in memory of his son, who was killed at the front. The spirit that enabled him to make that one had stood him in good stead throughout the years of Nazi domination...
...without giving a jot of information. With masterly ambiguity and in pure Federalese, Coy had written: "New developments cannot be scheduled, and therefore it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to determine when any piece of radio receiving equipment may become obsolete. We are unable, therefore, to make any recommendation regarding the obsolescence of equipment now being manufactured and sold...
Before "the Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam . . . I took no part, or only a small part, in the 'ecumenical movement,' indeed had all kinds of criticisms to make of it, since all 'movements' as such have always been and still are somewhat suspect in my eyes. But in this case I must confess, using the words in their ordinary sense, 'My mind has changed...