Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Gates came to Government by way of finance. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Gates entered his millionaire father's investment banking firm, Philadelphia's Drexel & Co. By the time he went to war in 1942 (he served as a Navy intelligence officer), Gates was a partner and well on the way to piling up a fortune of his own. Putting public service ahead of moneymaking, he went to Washington in 1953 to serve as Under Secretary of the Navy, moved up to Secretary of the Navy early in President Eisenhower's second term...
...gold outflow by curbing U.S. spending overseas. "A definite improvement in our balance-of-payments situation is mandatory," said Ike, "not only to insure our economic well-being and military security here at home, but also to insure that the U.S. can continue as a strong partner in the future economic growth and military strength of the free world...
Gallic gangster movies are like opera libretti; there are certain characteristics common to each succeeding story. These essential ingredients are, in random order: the daring under-world leader, known to one and all as a "real friend," his faithful but careless partner who consorts with loose-tongued women, a rival gang that never plays fair, an array of luscious showgirls, half-naked or otherwise, a huge bundle of stolen money that both sides are after, and various lesser mobsters that are always either being tortured or getting killed. This formula is slightly varied for each production, but the denouement...
Like other fine practitioners of the art, Moore dislikes the very term "accompanist." His role, he thinks, is closer to that of a partner or, as another famous accompanist, France's Tasso Janopoulo, describes it, a "co-interpreter." Certainly Moore's superb performances bear him out. He has a remarkable ability to vary rhythms and colors in order to illuminate the shifting moods of a singer's text. Moreover, he is aware that "there are 20,000 ways of performing one piece." and his volumes and tempi are tailored like a Savile Row suit to the style...
Like a Surgeon. Although an accompanist should be a partner, he is also, says Ulanowsky, likely to function as "part policeman and part nursemaid." (But, adds Soprano Erika Koth cryptically: "An accompanist is no lover.") Even as incendiary a singer as Maria Callas scrupulously follows the advice of her pianist, Italy's Antonio Tonini, in questions of interpretation. "Tonini pleases me," says she, "because he is an implacable torturer who makes me repeat the same phrase 20 or more times. He has always been for me like an expert surgeon who digs around in one's innards until...