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...Mississippi accent. Then he politely answered questions about such matters as the murky origins of his stories. He told of drinking corn likker for breakfast with "those unhuman people who live between the Mississippi and the levee." He once frankly admitted that his writing methods were often haphazard because "when the characters come alive, all the writer has to do is jog along with his notebook and record what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Resist the Mass | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Reich, there would have been no cross-Channel operation that year. It would have been sacrificed in favor of ... various desultory and haphazard operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...project in years, and also one of the fleshiest shows yet seen on the home screen. In fact Ellington's "allegorical tale of the origins of jazz" was a pretentious mishmash of primitive rhythms, pop tunes and sensuality. The sum of Drum was an interesting but meaningless collage, haphazard swatches of torrid rhythmic forms pasted on swirling globs of golds, indigos and vermilions. There were flashes of the Duke's fine musicianship. Ozzie Bailey sang Pomegranate with a seductiveness that might have tempted Persephone herself to try more of the fateful seeds, and there was ingenuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Gropius called attention to the discrepancy between "the high intellectual standards of this University and the haphazard mess that makes up its environment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gropius Urges Harvard, M.I.T. Construct Showcase Community | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...sure, the University offers courses in classical history, but they are given at intervals and not generally integrated with the Classics Department. The tutorial program is excellent, but the material covered is necessarily haphazard. Thus many a student approaches his senior year with little concept of what actually went on in classical antiquity except for what he has gleaned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classics in Perspective | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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