Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...records he will use on tonight's program, last night he was considering favorably some recent repressings of pre 1930 jazz classics. One thing is certain --all of his selections will come from the twenties. Harvard traditionalism has permeated his tastes in music enough to exclude the hybrid jazz of the thirties from his collection...
Fearful of overstocking the market with the crusty growls and efficient gunplay of Humphrey Bogart, Warner Brothers has forsaken thrillers for the more artistic character study. Producer Jerry Wald would more happily have retained the perennial favorite, for "Dark Passage" comes to the screen as a castrated hybrid with neither excitement nor perceptible depth. Brilliant in spots, Director Delmer Daves weaves a tenuous, confusing story that becomes bearable only through the most strenuous efforts of an excellent supporting cast...
HOUSE DIVIDED (1514 pp.)-Ben Ames Williams-Houghton Mifflin ($5). Ben Ames Williams made his reputation as a writer of brawny short stories, many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Like good hybrid corn, his yield has increased until it has overflowed into novels-novels that get bigger as Williams gets deeper into the American past. In Thread of Scarlet, he covered Nantucket Island during the War of 1812, in a mere 374 pages. Come Spring, a Revolutionary War novel, ran to 866 pages. His latest, House Divided, sprawls over fifteen hundred pages and four years of Confederate...
...made it "desparately.") The official pronouncer tried to soothe jangled nerves: "Relax, don't get excited. Have some fun." After that, things calmed down a bit, as contestants tripped on the tricky and the tough ones: remuneration, victuals, catarrh, integrity, censure, subtle, vaudeville, ukulele, bilious, ecstasy, granary, paraphernalia, hybrid, corollary, auricle, pugnacity, awry, diocese, quay, colossal, tutelage, idiosyncrasy, fuchsia, corroboration, rhinoceros, dysentery, desiccate, scintillate, proselyting, bellicose, knave, sarsaparilla...
Three matching bits of evidence in a row were more than coincidence. While the Fellows of the Royal Society watched intently, Blackett wrote down an equation* which may become as famous as Einstein's law, E-mc². It looked like the physical hybrid which science had been searching for so eagerly. On one side of the equation was magnetism, an electrical effect; on the other were basic gravitational quantities...