Word: hands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which was just the way Arp and his tight, bright circle of admirers wanted them. Albers' work was mathematically precise; Arp's cloudy figures were elaborately pointless: in all their polished bulges, holes, twists and suave concavities there was nothing to stop the eye, the hand, or the mind...
...room and out of the hotel." London's Producer Charles B. Cochran, who put on a couple of Porter shows, at first was hurt and bewildered by the way Porter would listen to his conversation for a while, and then, without preamble, suddenly put out his hand and say "Goodbye." Cochran was finally relieved to learn that he treated other people the same...
...songs. The only top-ranking Broadway composer besides Irving Berlin who writes his own lyrics, he usually begins with a song title to fit the plot situation, then finds his melody, and later fits the words to it. He begins with the last line and works backward. Close at hand is an exhaustive library of rhyming and foreign dictionaries (he speaks French, German, Spanish and Italian), geographical guides and other reference books...
When a Porter song is finished, it generally has a few added staves that are the germ of an orchestral arrangement. He writes out the lyrics in a neat, printlike hand, to be typed by his secretary. First to hear the music is Budapest-born Dr. Albert Sirmay, chief editor of Chappell & Co., Porter's publishers, and also his musical secretary, friend and adviser for 22 years. While the composer plays the song on one of his baby grands, Dr. Sirmay jots down notes and sometimes warns him about cribbing inadvertently from the 400 songs (250 of them published...
...like it that his name is out. For 50 years he has worked on the principle that the less people know about him, the less trouble he will have." Oxford authorities felt the same way. They did not have all the cash in hand yet, and as one undergraduate cracked: "They sure don't want to get the old man in a huff and have him take the money back. That would be a tragedy...