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...like "Four Saints" or "Mother of Us All," but the music is exactly right-no more nor less-for its frightening story. Menotti is a composer who can be described only as appealing; his music uses modern devices, manages to attract the listener without letting him out-of the grip of the opera in toto. He uses chiefly a semirecitative style, but he proves conclusively his ability to write an aria with an exceptionally lovely song which he gives the daughter near the close of the first...
...seemed only yesterday that the whole nation was shivering in the grip of one of the worst winters in history, but last week in London it was hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk. Just to prove it, three girls tried the trick, using a city rooftop instead of the pavement. They did the job in 15 minutes while news photographers stood by to record the history-making scene. "Silliest picture of the year," snorted the Evening Standard, sweltering and irritable in the heat (92°) of the hottest June day on record. "Everyone knows...
...Curry made a report on his findings last week before the American College of Allergists, in Atlantic City. U.S. doctors kept a firm grip on themselves (though some of their private opinions were unprintable). Pessimists among them feared that the aran theory, whatever its merits, would prove a gold mine for quacks and medical faddists...
...round sucker, like the rubber gadget that plumbers use to unplug drains. Inside the rim are rows of small teeth. When a hungry lamprey spies a fish, it darts to the fish's side. The sucker's teeth dig in and get a firm grip. Then the lamprey worries a hole in the fish with a file-like tongue and sucks its blood. Even if the fish survives, it is never quite the same again...
Chen and his brother saved the Kuomintang from Communist control; they got an iron grip on the machinery of the party. Opposition to Chiang Kaishek, or to Chen's CC clique, within Kuomintang China, became a dangerous matter. Chinese quipped: "Chiang chia t'ien hsia; Chen chia tang-The country belongs to the Chiangs; the party belongs to the Chens...