Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pathetique, and the New World Symphony. Of course, there are always younger listeners for whom a playing of these favorites is a new and exciting experience. On the other hand, conductors do not take enough for granted, such as the fact that the present-day concert audience is apt to be a good deal more sophisticated musically than the audience of five years ago; through records and the radio, it has gotten to know much great music, and it demands in consequence a more varied fare than the old concert repertoire. Laziness, too, may account for the way conductors tend...
...words came like a breath of fresh air from the contented '205: "You may say it is oldfashioned, but my belief is that the Federal Government should tend to national security with the utmost economy. I feel that expenditures by the Federal Government for personal security are apt to be unproductive in relation to the money spent...
Despite its affectation, you are apt to like Abraham's "Flow Gently, As In A Mourning Moonlight"--that is, like it up to the last few paragraphs, where it almost goes off the track. Abrahams has failed to clinch a story that has been well built up to an empty conclusion. Along with Bonner, Martin Collins Johnson was scarching for a new twist to the Boy-girl formula. "A Prevue With Angels" is good but too much absorbed with the twist, which in this case is the glorification of an intelligent mistress who knows and fears that marriage will mean...
...Ormond concluded that a dull child may be "every bit as imaginative" as a brighter one, has certain advantages as a poet: 1) because he has read less, his poetry is innocent of cliches; 2) because his reactions are more primitive ("He is more apt to be a jitterbug"), his poetry has rhythm...
...anyone you want--girls go stag--and the dim lights make it a sporting proposition. Harvard boys are disliked by much of Raymor's clientele, because of their condescending "lets go slumming" attitude. A nice car usually fixes that. Beware of the Roseland State, another dance hall--you're apt to find yourself at old-timers' night...