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...history means anything. But his poetry, well, that is something else again, quite above, beyond, and irrelevant of the man we came to know. How can you draw an analogy? Once created, the work of art does not depend upon its character; in fact, most creators' lives were so imperfect as to spoil our taste for their work were we to dwell upon them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hits Crimson Gieseking Stand | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Imperfect Echo. To most citizens (and to many of the electors themselves) the whole archaic process seemed as absurd and awkward as starting a jet engine with an 18th Century flint and steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Middlemen | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Jolson said he was getting out in May, complained: "I don't like going on the air and doing the show direct. Frankly, I don't know music and I can go flat. I'd like to do radio just like pictures-leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Flight of the Comedians | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...place in this film, music is used with great intelligence. When father Hubbard hires some musicians from Mobile to play his Opus 3, they are good but not too good at their jobs; the piano is the good but imperfect instrument you would expect to find in such a home; and Opus 3 is perfectly what might be expected of a vain, surprisingly talented but utterly derivative, provincial composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Slow Past. Television is imperfect and crude, compared with what it will be, but it is a modern miracle. The process of sending electronic pictures through the air and reassembling them in the living room is one of the great achievements of modern science. It all began in 1873 with a sharp-eared Irishman and a leprechaun sunbeam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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