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But there are some organized crime syndicates working in this country--groups that make the Mafia and the old Murder Inc. look juvenile. They are headed by men who are clever enough to keep the Suttons out of their way. As the case stands now, Willy will end his days...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Crime Marches On | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

If Balanchine's 73rd ballet was a smash success, his 74th two nights later was as close to an unqualified flop as Balanchine ever comes. Bayou, danced to a thin and repetitious suite from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story film score, was simply not Classicist Balanchine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sound Ballet | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

"Some [pupils] have difficulty verbalizing about the esthetic experience. But often their gropings make for the fresh insight . . . The war on the cliché is continuous, but poetry is not written by mere avoidance of the cliche. Little theorizing about rhythm, but a constant reading aloud to hear rhythms, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teaching Poets | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

But Copland's songs are far from bad. Once in a while he sank to the cliche of repeating the first lines at the end of the song, thereby destroying the calculated effect of Dickinson's stanziac form; but on the whole, his settings agreed perfectly with the words. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music by Aaron Copland | 2/23/1952 | See Source »

Back to Work. He firmly believes that the election of '32 was a greater catastrophe than the crash of '29. "We put into office as our Chief Executive a Pied Piper ... a gifted madman." If Jeff confuses the state of the nation with the state of his soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Babbitt | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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