Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think of to begin a series of digs against one particular species of critic--the movie critic. We're raising in our midst a generation of critics of a particularly American form of art who apparently have nothing better to do than to sit in picture shows and bore themselves stiff If the pictures they see are so god-awful that they're disgusted night after night in seeing them, then it isn't much of a compliment to them that they continue to do it. It's probably all for filthy gold, anyway...
...opera came to a halt. On to the stage of Philadelphia's Academy of Music, set to represent a Viennese ballroom of the bustle and muttonchop era, someone dragged a microphone. Entered a lean, intense, bug-eyed young man in white tie & tails. In his hand he bore a mouth organ. Impassively and impressively he proceeded to render a solo. The Blue Danube. Such was the operatic debut of the world's greatest harmonicist, Larry Adler...
...Keller, who in 50 years at Yale (42 as teacher) made the Sumner tradition great. With Keller it was a case of love at first sight; from the day he entered Sumner's class he began to prepare to follow in the great man's steps, meekly bore Sumner's pronouncements on his habits, studies, marriage (Sumner was against it). Keller became as great a sociologist and anthropologist as Sumner, learned ten of Sumner's 13 languages (bogging down only on Hebrew, Russian, Polish...
Whirling Cannon. Induction heating contributes to one of the most ingenious practices in modern arsenals-the centrifugal casting of gun barrels. Steel is induction-melted, then poured into a horizontally rotating mold which continues to spin until the casting hardens. Thus formed is a hollow, easy-to-bore barrel instead of the solid ingot from which cannon were formerly forged and drilled. Slag (formed by the oxidation of the molten metal) is forced to the inner surface of the casting, where it can easily be tooled away...
Funerals became strangely frequent. Always first in processions was Pierre Guichard, dignified beadle of the Cérilly church. Next, the cure, sprinkling holy water with an energy suggesting joyous abandon. Behind him came the coffin bearers, their spirits lighter than the heavy box they bore. Then the black-veiled mourners, bearing their grief with an odd furtiveness...