Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was said inside Sanders Theater on Friday evening is vastly more important than anything that happened outside; accordingly your excellent account of the lecture itself is more notable than any weakness in your report on the verflow crowd. Nevertheless, I offer one correction to this report, on the ground that it is not wholly fair to those who were unable...
...quote me as shouting, "You people have just succeeded in ruining this lecture for everyobody else," and your account suggests that this sweet sentiment "checked" the "throng." I submit that (a) I didn't say it (b) it wasn't true, and (c) no self-respecting throng would have been checked by such a shout. What I did say, among other things, was that if the noise should continue, it would ruin the lecture for others; it is only a difference in tense, but it substantially affects the meaning. The reasons was prompt and cooperative...
...this theory of anti-Oppenheimer motive will not account for Admiral Strauss, no Air Force "zealot." The Alsops supply Strauss with a far baser motive than zealotry. It seems-and this will surprise hundreds of his business, official and intellectual acquaintances-that Strauss is an incredibly vain, arrogant and vengeful man. Years ago, Oppenheimer had the misfortune to humiliate Strauss in an argument about isotopes, say the Alsops, and Strauss never forgot...
There is indeed. Jazz, which used to account for a tiny percentage of sales among the major record companies, has become a big moneymaker for the big labels. Across the U.S. there are also some two dozen companies making a comfortable profit by putting out nothing but jazz. Even such diehard highbrow companies as Westminster and Vanguard (The Bach Guild) have turned out money-making jazz albums. At Victor, which has just hired its first full-time jazz executive, a jazz-type record called Inside Souter-Finegan for six months outsold everything in the imposing Red Seal catalogue except Mario...
...anything she wants to, and this story records how Pat McCormick, the pretty art student from El Paso's Western College, wanted to make a career of bullfighting, and did. Though far from Hemingway's or Barnaby Conrad's bullfight Baedekers, this ingratiatingly modest account of a girl's apprenticeship in one of man's most mysterious worlds will tell most North Americans more than they ever knew about the art of the corrida...