Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rene Le Roy, flute; New York Wind Ensemble, Juilliard Percussion Orchestra, Frederic Waldman conducting; Elaine Music Shop, 2 sides LP). Percussionist Edgard Varèse is a Buck Rogers of music whose drummings, thumpings, clangings and shrillings make the compositions of such modernists as Stravinsky seem old-fashioned arid conventional. Here is a full sampling for the hardy. Recording: good...
...whole arid field of current U.S. literary criticism, few critics have successfully brought their acres to cultivation; most of the yield consists either of dried academic pods or fluttery reviewing that could thrive nearly as well on book jackets. Critic Edmund Wilson's small crop of evaluations (Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow) is the hardiest, the most varied and the one with the best chance of preservation. His new book, Classics and Commercials, is made up entirely of pieces written over the past ten years. No U.S. critic now writing could gather...
...order of their distance: the moon (240,000 miles, 9½ hours); Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn (790 million miles, 1,333 days). The planetarium's "Passenger Briefing" warned that the moon is no such warm romantic place as it might seem over Miami, but rather a chill, arid spot, covered with a layer of dustlike pumice several feet thick, where conversation would be impossible, climate problematical, and locomotion difficult. While working up to a speed of 3,621 m.p.h., those with high blood pressure might suffer momentary blackouts...
Pohang, a minor but useful port, had been lost to the enemy last month arid then retaken by the South Koreans in what they prematurely called their "greatest victory of the war." Last week, cracking before a tremendous Red onslaught, they lost Pohang again. Pohang's airport, which a U.S. task force was defending, was still in Allied hands at week...
Safe for a Year. The chief issue of the strike,' the largest major walkout in Guild history, was union arid job security. In the end, the Guild negotiators settled for the same offer that management had made a month ago, which a group of rebel Guilds-men had tried to get the Guild to accept (TIME, Aug. 14). The job-security clause permits arbitration of contested firings, with dismissals to be made only "for good and sufficient cause...