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Actually, the first crack in the dam was when Lester ("Pres") Young introduced a new school of vibratoless tone and long, extended solo lines. Young was Hawkins' strongest challenger, and it was Pres who begat Getz and the cool school. Most musicians consider Hawkins and Young the two great tenor influences...
...chats in which the aged Lord Stoke, who cultivates a deafness of convenience, Mrs. Morland, the giddy novelist, and various gentle-born friends agree that the bishopess (always absent) is a pill. Gradually, as the Barsetshire books piled up, nearly everyone of note in the county appeared, married and begat (hardly anyone died), and Storyteller Thirkell confessed that for the life of her she could not keep track of all the children...
...that turns eventually into a hope opera. Will the Sanhedrin succeed in its plot against the Nazarene? The outcome actually seems uncertain most of the time. Despite occasional effective scenes-such as Christ's Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem-the scenario is often less lively than the begat-begat-begat chapters of Genesis. "Living tableaux" of scenes from the Old Testament contribute little but an impression of so many Bavarian countryfolk assembling for a photograph in Biblical costume...
Citation: "A jovial soul of magnetic human qualities, wise of statecraft and learned in the law, in the fashion of one inured to the blasts that torment the summit of Everest, he mans his lofty eminence with serenity and aplomb begat of a stout heart and the instinct for unswerving rectitude...
...Reform begat renewal. Civic-minded Bruce Palmer, president of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. announced that "thanks to the new climate." his corporation was not only staying in the city, but would also build a $10 million home office in downtown Newark. Forty citizens from the rundown Clinton Hill area hustled off to Philadelphia to study rehabilitation projects; another group went to Pittsburgh to view the Golden Triangle. The Rutgers University law faculty pitched in to help on legal problems, and Newark businessmen volunteered staff services...