Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of MMP's items are a product of the run of the week's news, but we interview a number of subjects ourselves. One of them, flat-bellied (his own term) Author Michael Arlen, whose observations about his life & times subsequently appeared in People (TIME, Feb. 11), was so impressed with the work of the researcher who interviewed him that he applied for a job as People writer. We are also indebted to you for some of the items in MMP. In that category, however, our champion contributor is Capt. Frank Luckel, U.S. Navy...
...slangy prose he had often substituted for austere poetry, the modern flourishes (card playing, automobiles) and modern dress. They gave a mild fillip to a classic story, but they did not make for an effective play. This Antigone, barring its one big clash between despot and defier, was flat, fumbly theater. This Antigone, shorn of her Resistance aura, was unmoving and unreal. And in a modernish setting, the burial issue on which the plot hinges seemed outlandishly bizarre...
...Manhattan's concert season, far & away, has been Soprano Maggie Teyte. Last week she showed why. It was her last U.S. recital of the season, in Town Hall. One of the highest notes of the. program was an A flat in Henri Duparc's Phidylé. Redheaded, little (5-ft.) Maggie Teyte opened her mouth wide to sing it fortissimo but not even the faintest pianissimo came out. At the end of the piece, the audience bravoed noisily. Maggie Teyte seemed to feel that some of the applause was more kindly than genuine. She turned to her accompanist...
...airline miles south in the Mackenzie Valley. It would be comparable to a trip from Tallahassee to Chicago to central Nebraska to Corpus Christi. The region has been visited so infrequently by man that close-up maps of it are liberally sprinkled with such vague comments as "flat country" and "rolling plains with numerous lakes...
...scientists had hoped to return to the ivory towers of pure and free research. Few had succeeded. The bomb had smashed their cloistered world as flat as Hiroshima. Disconsolately, sometimes angrily, they wandered about the ruins...