Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With regard to the letters from Symon Gould and E. L. Pratt [TIME, May 3], and your quote from my Humanist as Hero; the Life of Sir Thomas More to substantiate what you previously wrote about More's meat-eating habits, let me add that what Erasmus says comes from a very long and detailed letter about his closest friend...
...help unlard the A.P.'s avoirduprose, Gould hired Readability Expert Dr. Rudolf Flesch (TIME, Feb. 16). There are signs also that the A.P. is getting over the timidity that makes it (for fear of offending one of its 3,900 members) almost objectionably objective. "We have a duty," said Gould's log, "to give the reader some idea of how near the truth a broadcast or communique may be . . ." And the A.P. is encouraging its own Managing Editors Association to find fault. Many an M.E. thinks the world's best news service could still be considerably improved...
...Great Alberti and the Great Alzanas more than counterbalance the absent Great Wallendas. They even counterbalance the present Great Rose Gould, a highly publicized aerialist who does little more than hold on tightly to a rope as she plummets earthwards. Alberti stands on his head on a 50-feet pole and, as the audience watches in silent dismay, causes the pole to sway back and forth. Alzanas skips rope on a high wire, his father standing 40 feet below in the interest of safety, if you can call it that. He indulges one of history's most perverse senses...
...SYMON GOULD...
...periodic intervals there have been little out bursts in these columns about the marauding vagaries of Serge Koussevitzky. There have been complaints, often justified, about thin Mozart tones being swollen into Lisztian voluptuousness, about batteries of double basses grinding out Bach fugues, about programs of Morton Gould and Samuel Barber. But, instead of picking our noses to find something to grumble about, let us realize that Serge Koussevitzky is a very fine conductor, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society is a very fine choral group, the Boston Symphony is a superb orchestra, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis...