Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them with a neurotic sense of "loneliness . . . failure and pathetic incompetence." When inspired, "almost all creative writers have at some moments of their lives been panic-stricken by the conviction that their imagination was getting the better of their reason. . . . The God visits them, not amicably, but in a flash of flame and fire." In Shakespeare's phrase: "Such tricks hath strong imagination...
...Harvard-Yale grid clash will flash on the New Lecture Hall screen tonight at 7:45 o'clock under Athletic Association sponsorship. J.V. mentor Chief Boston, and Harry Jacunski, Varsity end coach, will make a running commentary on the 16mm silent reel of one hour and 15 minutes length...
...proclaim their acceptance of authority, which is just the opposite of subservience to power. The great social victory of order, out of which freedom issues, had, in turn, its source in marriage, whether in Westminster Abbey or in a country church. Thus, what would otherwise have been merely a flash of gems, a blare of horns and a hash of gossip took on a meaning for Briton and alien by a fascinating interplay of dignity and earthiness, of humor, pomp and prayer...
...Service was invented by Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, 40, CBS's bashful, brilliant chief engineer and color television genius. I.A.M.S.'s listening posts will be little black gadget boxes attached to the family radio in "scientifically selected" homes. These boxes, responding to signals from station transmitters, will flash radio messages back at the rate of one a minute. At the station, these thousands of messages will be electronically counted and translated into graphs showing a program's minute-to-minute popularity...
...time. By waxing tunes from unreleased movies and upcoming Broadway musicals, there were plenty of songs to go around. At least half a dozen singers and orchestras are scheduled to make recordings of Stravinsky's Summer Moon (TIME, Nov. 3). Popular-music fans might miss a few flash novelties like Open the Door, Richard!, which come from nowhere, but they would hear many a new version of "standards" like Stardust...