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...means to develop its immense resources. Since the turn of the century, the U.S. has poured more direct private investments into Latin America ($6 billion plus) than into either Europe, Canada or the combined remainder of the world. Between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn there are 2,000 U.S. enterprises: oil companies, mines, auto factories, power plants, banana plantations...
...soft beach, and a bell buoy clanked mournfully. On the other side of the record was a kind of aural shipboard narrative, beginning with the gorgeous sound of the Queen Mary's deep bass whistle, and ending with the horrid harrumph of the West Quoddy Head horn...
...exhibits many virtues of late Romantic music-a large yet skillfully employed orchestra, unhackneyed melodies, profound knowledge of traditional form and its potential for variation. Yet Bruckner's fondness for symphonic rhetoric and undeniable long-windedness try the patience of many. He writes too many thundering climaxes, too many horn calls, too many notes. The limited expressiveness of his melodies simply fails to justify their colossal setting...
While Desmond's horn sighs its fancies, Brubeck punctuates with syncopated figures, listening intently, now smiling secretly, now pursing his lips, ticking off the tempo with one brown suede shoe. When Desmond is through, Brubeck picks up the last idea and toys with it. He ripples along for a while in running melodic notes, builds up a sweet and lyrical strain, noodles it into a lowdown mood, adds a contrapuntal voice, suddenly lashes into a dissonant mirror-inversion, then subsides into a completely disconnected rhythm that momentarily garbles the beat. The listeners lose all contact with the original tune...
...despite apparent successes, black-ink--unless it is on the music--is not widely used in the office below the Varsity Club. This year's Princeton trip costs, for example, will depend on the success of the annual Dartmouth concert. In spite of such horn-to-mouth finances, however, the band as missed only two varsity games since its organization, one trip to Cornell and the trip to Stanford...