Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the stories fit what people like to call the New Yorker pattern: sharp photographic action--glaringly-lit scenes into which the reader is lowered like a sound-stage camera on its boom, allowed to look on for a few minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them...
...freshman taking Math 1 will tell you that writing zero-over-zero is nonsense and can just as well be .300, .995, 1.000, or even 100.000, as .000. Why not give the boys a break and either omit the average or call it 1.000 until they get a chance to perform? W. T. Fishback...
...money for the musicomedy Hold It!. Most of Manhattan's reviewers panned the show, but Farrell, who knows what he likes, wanted to keep it going. Six weeks and $300,000 later, he made his own odd diagnosis: the show's theater (where Call Me Mister had rolled up a hit run) was no good...
...only thing standing in the way of another U. S. Russian meeting on lining the Berlin blockade is the simple matter of a telephone call, a State Department spokesman said yesterday...
Each movement has its own special fascination. The scherzo, probably the finest ever written, is a study in titanic contrasts. One moment the whole orchestra is playing the rhythmic theme louder than would seem possible, and suddenly nothing remains but a rollicking melody for woodwind quartet. Some critics call the third movement too long. They could not be more wrong. After hearing Koussevitzky's interpretation, I could only wish that the movement was twice as long as it is. But Beethoven knew the dangers of satisfaction, and he achieved just the right length...