Word: erraticism
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Essentially, the world has singled out Caryl Chessman from the faceless men on the world's Death Rows because Chessman wrote his way out of obscurity. Most of the men sentenced to death for criminal offenses in the Western world are inarticulate and without the influence that Caryl Chessman...
¶Rarely have All-America selectors agreed so unanimously on the nation's finest college basketball players. The four solid choices: Cincinnati's record-scoring Oscar Robertson (6 ft. 5 in., 198 lbs.), West Virginia's driving, versatile Jerry West (6 ft. 3 in., 175 lbs.), Ohio...
The financial and cultural capital of the horseshoe-and of Canada-is sprawling, fast-growing Toronto (metropolitan pop. 1,500,000, second only to Montreal's 1,600,000). One of the continent's genuine boom towns, Toronto encourages light industry; only a handful of factories hire more...
Rich Man's Dish. Greenleaf's first big customer was the U.S. Air Force base in Dhahran. Weary of unreliable local merchants, erratic deliveries and low-quality products, the base's procurement officers at first agreed only to a trial contract. The shipments were so prompt-and...
Of Movements, Stravinsky adds: "Every aspect of the composition was guided by the forms of the series-the sixes, the quadrilaterals, the triangles . . . The listener has to get down and look up through the series, so to speak." Scored for a moderate-sized orchestra and piano (expertly played at the...