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...yesterday the Department of Public Safety announced that it was "willing to entertain requests for permits" for non-wedding dances, which one week ago had been absolutely declared illegal by this same group. Reportedly, certain veteran and union organizations put pressure on the Department for a reversal. Attorney General McCormack was not available for comment last night...
...that how a thing is said is often as important as what is said. TIME places great importance on how it says what it has to say, for the felicitous turn of a phrase can do much to add interest, to clarify, to emphasize, to make clear or to entertain. Some examples from this week's TIME...
There are only two kinds of music; German music and bad music. Puccini was the best of the wops. His aim was to entertain well-fed folk after dinner-and he did it very competently. Verdi is not to be heard sober, but with a few whiskies tinder my belt I enjoy the last act of II Trovatore. Chopin is a sugar-teat: his music is excellent on rainy afternoons in Winter, with the fire burning, the shaker full and the girl somewhat silly...
...Skyraiders swooped down, strafing and dropping napalm bombs. Some 100 soldiers of the 450-man battalion were killed, many more wounded. Colonel Cao's men captured 22 prisoners, including two nurses and two 15-year-old boys who claimed that their job was to sing and dance to entertain the guerrillas...
...sportscaster to be certain that the announcer sees what the bleacherite sees; sometimes the fan tunes in a second ball game and, by concentrating hard, follows both at once, even if no one else can. With his built-in portable background music, a lonely boy can entice and entertain a girl without need for conversation, and when the romance dies, there is still the transistor for company...