Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Imam Yahya of Yemen's death (TIME, March 1), rival contenders have been fighting a civil war for his desert imamate. An Arab League delegation, out from Cairo to investigate affairs in Yemen, has got no farther than Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia. There the delegates have shivered through the desert nights behind mud-brick walls, warmed only by their camel's-hair abayas (cloaks...
...successor, lumpish George I, attended almost all his operas with his favorite German mistress and her "two acres of cheeks ... an ocean of neck." The rest of London was more fickle. Addison, who had written an unsuccessful opera himself, denounced and ridiculed Handel's music. Handel's rival, the egocentric Giovanni Battista Bononcini, kept him fighting for audiences...
...Handel's most powerful opponent was Frederick, Prince of Wales. He and his young friends, who scorned everything his father, George II, chose to favor, set up an Opera of the Nobility to rival Handel's theater. Handel's enemies organized bands of hoodlums to tear down his posters, gave parties on the nights of his oratorios to make sure no one would attend. Sometimes Handel played to nearly empty houses ("My music will sound the better so!" he snorted). Sometimes, the King and his party made up nearly the entire audience. Quipped Lord Chesterfield on leaving...
...threat with, "That was the slowest Freshman crew Harvard has had since I've been here." He is just as unperturbed by the extensive training program that Eli coach Skip Walz has put his charge through since last fall, and he even shrugs off the fact that every rival crew has already been in the water for several weeks. "You can only train a crew just so long," is the Bolles theory...
...answers yet. But moviemakers, who had once regarded television as a potential rival, to be watched warily, were now hustling to make special movies for television. Paramount Pictures was out in front. Already owner of two stations, it was planning to film television programs (plays, quiz programs, etc.) and distribute them over a coast-to-coast "celluloid network...