Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thompson: Quartet No. 1 (Guilet String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). A good quartet; Harvard's Randall Thompson is full of the flavor and drive of the U.S. - but also owes a little to his teacher, Ernest Bloch. Performance and recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...current Engineering and Science Monthly, a Caltech flavor chemist, Hoiland-born Dr. Arie J. Haagen-Smit, tells how he vacuum-distilled 6,000 pounds of pineapples and ended up with a few grams of powerful pineapple essence. He took the essence apart bit by bit, identifying microscopic amounts of flavor-giving compounds. Then he mixed a cocktail of the chemicals he had spotted. The result was a "satisfactory reproduction" of fresh pineapple smell...
...Haagen-Smit did his laborious job for the Hawaiian pineapple growers, who believe that they can grow and market better pineapples if they know the chemical origin of the fruit's admired flavor. But Dr. Haagen-Smit's main interest is to find out what flavor really...
...Haagen-Smit hopes that his work may develop into a new technique of flavor preservation. When vegetables are dehydrated, for instance, many of their volatile flavoring compounds are lost. After chemists have learned what these compounds are, they may be able to devise tricks for capturing and restoring the natural flavor to dehydrated food...
...play about a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. He has ranged from comic ditties and Broadway torch ballads to songs in the rich, tuneful manner of Italian light opera, to match the Paduan setting of The Shrew. Several take their titles, and the flavor of their lyrical development, from the play's Elizabethan verse. The New York Times's Brooks Atkinson solemnly declared that I Hate Men is "the perfect musical sublimation of Shakespeare's evil-tempered Kate...