Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mozart: Quartet in E Flat Major for piano and strings (George Szell, piano, with members of the Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). Although not one of his great quartets, this delightful, sparkling slice of Mozart is almost a miniature piano concerto. The Cleveland Orchestra's conductor gives a crisp but playful assist at the piano. Performance: excellent...
James McNeill Whistler was really two people. He was a pugnacious little dandy in a wide-brimmed, flat hat, who sported a tuft of beard under his lip and tugged at it gently when he was thinking up malicious dodges to discomfit his enemies. Whistler fought the world from the day he was kicked out of West Point for flunking chemistry. ("Had silicon been a gas,'' he is reported to have said, "I would have been a major general.") Between rounds, Whistler became instead an immensely solemn, self-absorbed artist, who turned his friends and the London...
...could not meet regular admissions standards were getting a crack at a college education anyway. Some of them had never finished high school, others had barely skidded through with less than the customary 15 college-entrance units. Most of them had applied to a university and been turned down flat...
...heavy and oppressive over the flat, treeless prairies of the Texas Panhandle. It was getting on toward supper time. In the little town of White Deer (pop. 500), Stockman H. W. Holmes stood in his front yard, uneasy in the muggy closeness. Suddenly, in the lowering clouds to the west, he saw a black, towering funnel, wavering, twisting, clutching at the earth. There was a deep-toned rumble "like a fast freight train." Said Holmes: "It hit an oncoming freight train just outside of town, and they tell me that 19 cars and two cabooses went off the rails...
...London. In the closing shot the roofs lie defenseless to the hell that is soon to crack them open. But by then, Coward has made clear how ready the people under the roofs are to endure the worst and to prevail against it. He shows this never through flat heroics, but through the quiet, immense courage, patience, kindliness and common sense which give structure, and a certain majesty, to 20 years of one family's life...