Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lively grasshoppers. There are rattlesnakes, lizards, pack rats and mice in the vicinity-none of them, apparently, the worse for their hot habitat. A cottontail rabbit has a home in the crater itself. The antelope (which local stories said had been frightened into Mexico) are back in the great arid valley...
...folk music is the good earth from which much great music springs, the U.S. has a rich subsoil. But little has been cultivated outside the jazz patch, and the U.S. opera crop has been especially sparse. Last week a foreign-born U.S. composer proclaimed that the soil was ready to bear, if only U.S. composers would work it. He offered a piece of his own produce to prove his point...
Down in the Valley is made to that measure. No scenery is needed, and fewer than a dozen singers, none of whom needs any great vocal range or agility. The story is pathetic enough to sluice any church basement with tears. Brack Weaver loves Jennie Parsons. Her father wants her to pay attention to Thomas Bouché, who has him on a financial hook. Jennie refuses. Bouché pulls a knife on Brack. Brack kills him, is sentenced to death, escapes from jail to spend his last hours with Jennie, then goes dutifully back...
Last week proud old Kentucky found a great big tack in its bourbon barrel. Its state officials swarmed angrily on Washington, where the Bureau of Internal Revenue was deciding a momentous question: Is whisky stored in used casks just as good as whisky stored, Kentucky-fashion, in new charred white oak casks? Up rose Guy C. Shearer, administrator of Kentucky's liquor board. "Kentucky," cried he, "is a bourbon state . . . steeped in the knowledge and in the tradition of the production of whisky, both legal . . . and illegal." The Treasury, hinted Shearer, had better not tell Kentucky how whisky should...
...Great Gatsby (Paramount] might have been a fine picture. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel had almost everything a moviemaker could ask for: a strong love story, natural dialogue, an emotional climate as supercharged with violence as a summer storm, and a sensitive perception of period and place. Unfortunately, the movie version misses many of its opportunities...