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...wore a childlike smile when something pleased him, a chilling sneer when something did not. Sometimes he gesticulated wildly, once seemed near tears. Often he seemed merely bored ("Bah, I speak baby stuff!"). But whatever his crotchets, students and professors at Yale last week were flocking to the special seminar of Polish-born Count Alfred Korzybski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Always the Etc.? | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...From the Taino word batata, pronounced bah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ahoy, Polloi! | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...features--to be specific, Martyn Green, Sidney Granville, and the D'Oyly Carte Chorus. Known to every loyal Saveyard, oldtimers Green and Granville don't seem to mind the cameras at all; a gag's a gag, and these two know how to use one. Sydney Granville, as Pooh-Bah, looks more like Friar Tuck than Lord High Everything Else, but he plays the part for all its' worth. As for Martyn Green, anyone who has ever seen the man in action knows that the show could rock and he'd still save...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Mikado | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...music. The Communists regard him as a decadent, God-loving capitalist who writes ugly music. Stravinsky's opinion of the Communists is just as brusque: he thinks they are ruining Russian music (including that of his old friend Sergei Prokofiev). Says Stravinsky: "I hate Soviet music. Bah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master Mechanic | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...never "hired" by Mr. John Huston as he stated according to your review of Treasure of Sierra Madre [TIME, Feb. 2]. . . . When I was introduced to a certain gentleman - one of the very few genuine gentlemen in the caravan that the Warners shipped to Mexico for their boo-bah-booing there -he looked at me hard and sharp for two seconds and asked: "Suppose you had something to do with that picture in general, or, let's assume, with the music or sound effects, what would you suggest?" After I had talked about four minutes, he interrupted me short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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