Word: arson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where others murder the classics, Hazel Scott merely commits arson. Classicists who wince at the idea of jiving Tchaikovsky feel no pain whatever as they watch her do it. She seems coolly determined to play legitimately, and for a brief while, triumphs. But gradually it becomes apparent that evil forces are struggling within her for expression. Strange notes and rhythms creep in, the melody is tortured with hints of boogie-woogie, until finally, happily, Hazel Scott surrenders to her worse nature and beats the keyboard into a rack of bones. The reverse is also true: into...
...school, clings to a somewhat cloistered view of the law. A renowned theorist, he is unaware of the common or police-court distortions of legal principles. Gary Grant, Jean Arthur and others resolve-not entirely unselfishly-to open his eyes. Grant is a fugitive from an arson charge. He has been framed by his boss, who burned down his factory to collect the insurance. Miss Arthur, a rather befuddled schoolmarm, just wants to see justice done...
...military history. Lessons will be pounded home by instructors from the Corps of Engineers. Ultimate aim: to make the task of demolition, heretofore an art sacred to the engineers, a job that any soldier can do in a pinch, if he has the explosives and a bit of arson in his system...
...Night ($3.50), Jan Valtin's sensational revelations of a Communist undercoverman, which, bristling with arson, murder, strikes, kidnappings, false passports, showed that the Russian fifth column was coterminous with the globe...
...that we learn of the suspension of the Smith "Tatler" because of an article printed in its October issue which offended the college maids and waitresses. We do not feel that a college should have the power to crack down on a publication for any reason less serious than arson or murder...