Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign travel, reconstruction work abroad, and communal living as a member of a European family are some of the summer opportunities to be described tonight by Donald Watt, director of the Experiment in International Living, Inc. at 7:30 o'clock in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House...
...department's eight-column story on the life & works of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter-soldier-politician, in the Nov. 10 issue is, to a large extent, the result of a year's acquaintanceship between Artist Siqueiros and John Stanton, chief of TIME Inc.'s Mexico City bureau. Because the detail and sound analysis of Stanton's research also showed a warm understanding of Mexican ways, I asked him to tell me about the business of being a correspondent in Mexico as it applied to the Siqueiros story. This is his reply...
Jacob Coopersmith's definitive edition of Handel's mighty Messiah, newly published (Carl Fischer, Inc.; $1.25), was last week greeted by U.S. music scholars a one of the most important contribution of its kind in years. The Messiah, he had found, had never been properly performed since Handel's day. Original scores and pages had been misplaced. Performers and singers had arbitrarily changed notes, keys and instrumentation to suit their own peculiarities. Handel himself, who wrote the 3½-hour-long oratorio in one 24-day burst, had reworked it several times to accommodate the talents...
Said Walter Weir, of Manhattan's Walter Weir, Inc.: "You have only to read some of the incredible drivel being foisted upon the American public ... to realize that today's copywriter-bred on copy research-has become a virtual Katzenjammer Kid ... giving readers and listeners mental and spiritual hotfoots hour after hour, every day in the year." Radio copywriters, said Weir, are among the worst offenders: "Through slavish obeisance to Hooperatings [see RADIO] . . . [radio] has become largely hackneyed and stereotyped...
Waxworks of Tomorrow. In Racine Wis., S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (Johnson's Wax) began building a radically new research building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who also designed the com pany's administrative building. The air conditioned structure, which resembles a hollyhock in a glass case (see cut), will be 40 feet square, have 15 floors. Alternate floors will be circular, and all floors will be hung in cantilever fashion from a central reinforced-concrete stem which contains the elevators...