Word: gibberish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camp maintains that Schönberg's music, like Einstein's theory, sounds queer because it is way over the average man's head; opponents swear that Schönberg is pulling everybody's leg, including his own, and that his miscalled music is a gibberish of wrong notes. Gibberish or no, Arnold Schönberg's music is fearfully difficult to play. The main difficulty is to get all of Schönberg's wrong notes in the right places...
...enough of this gibberish. Let's call up a couple of other coaches on this week's honor roll. Step up, Dick Harlow! It looks like you have another great November team, but I'll keep my fingers crossed until the last minute of that Yale game has ticked away...
Chaplin throwing platefuls of strawberries & cream and the sight of Jews being shot in the streets do not mix. At one time Chaplin's dictator roars gibberish at crowds, at another he is abashed by Oakie, at a third he malignantly orders a pogrom. Even Chaplin's barber is not of a piece. At the end of the picture the long bewildered little man suddenly launches into a forceful, moving and undoubtedly heartfelt six-minute sermon on democracy...
Such complex gibberish annoys Surgeon Moses Benmosché of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. Surgeon Benmosché believes that patients have more guts when they are told more about them. This week Dr. Benmosché published the first popular primer of surgery: A Surgeon Explains to the Layman (Simon & Schuster; $3). His book is chock-full of bold diagrams, simple descriptions of operations. Dr. Benmosché's bookside manner is calm and reassuring, should serve as a tonic for healthy-minded patients. Sample information...
...added an inch to his height. Orson Welles continued directing his film Citizen Kane from a wheel chair after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey, had to take out an A. F. R. A. union card so he could chatter monkey gibberish over a radio show called Little Old Hollywood. Chatter-chirping Louella Parsons discov ered that pretty Virginia Bruce (Mrs. J. Walter Ruben) was expecting a "little stranger" in six months...