Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...using needles set to corresponding angles and sizes to fit her day-by-day wishes in recording procedure-is just so much Miss Porter's School hogwash. The needles in these modern reproducers are set at the factory, and cannot be adjusted. The simplest method, I might add, would be to fit Miss Howard's recording to these needle adjustments, which, I might add also, have probably been made by engineers with perhaps more thoroughgoing engineering degrees than those passed out at Miss Porter's select school at Farmington...
...decline of civilization at large. A good deal of how he felt he managed to get into The Education of Henry Adams, and more is to be had in the two large volumes of his letters edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. It might seem like mere academic piety to add further evidence. But readers who miss Henry Adams and His Friends will miss: 1) a hitherto unpublished assortment of more than 600 Adams letters, many of them of first interest; 2) the shrill cackling ofxone of the most gifted and cantankerous of U.S. 19th Century minds...
...didn't mean much. The tax on electric light bulbs was cut from 20% to 5%; on local telephone calls, from 15% to 10%; on railway and plane tickets, from 15% to 10%. But existing federal taxes, not touched by last week's action, would still add 7 to the cost of a pack of cigarets, 10% to the cost of radios, phonographs, electric appliances...
...Enfants du Paradis. Three hours of sharp, cynically witty scenes add up to a refreshingly aimless, very French film made during the Occupation (TIME...
...translator of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shakespeare, Burns, and his new play is a lyrical fantasy on the old Christmas pantomime model, complete with the wicked old woman, Cinderella-girl, a young queen, talking animals and magic wands. Twelve Months does nothing to establish a new tradition, but it does add charm and poetry to a very...