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...President, disorganized as it is, gets the man over. It will delight Truman's admirers, and it will cause those who deplore him to gnash their teeth. Nobody, however, can deny that it is a strange and wonderful fact that the man pictured in Mr. President can be President of the U.S., anno Domini...
Mozart: Symphony in G Minor, No. 40 (K.550) (The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Pittsburghers may gnash their teeth for letting Fritz Reiner go (TIME, March 8) after hearing this splendid performance of a great symphony. Recording (Columbia's first on Vinylite): excellent...
...obviously did not know immediately what later must have caused him to gnash his teeth: if he had brought his fleet in behind his 105 planes, he could have seized Hawaii. If Hawaii had fallen into his clutches, the Jap would have been close to winning the war in its first week...
...admired him then he has remained a sort of demi-god, even though his band has never matched its pristine achiechements of the Music goes 'round and 'round era when benny was beginning to be called the Swingmaster. We have wailed at his romantic tenors and will probably gnash our teeth at his forthcoming vocal trio, and have hung heads listening to "Buckle Down Winsocki." and when he comes out with a good record like "Limehouse Blues" or "String of Pearls," there has been jubilation in our ranks...
...bott H. Thayer (whose Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom is often consulted by U.S. Army camouflage experts) have claimed that all animals are camouflaged, "the most gorgeous costumes being, in their own way, climaxes of obliterative coloring." Obliterative climax of the Thayers' theories-which made Theodore Roosevelt gnash his teeth and boom "Nature Fakers!"-was the idea that flamingos are concealingly colored because their foes mistake them for sunsets. Other biologists have been skeptical of all claimed adaptations, especially mimetic postures. Cott goes to neither extreme. Proof of adaptive coloration, he agrees, "is one of the most notable...