Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PEARL HARBOR WITNESS VANISHES! says the New York Journal-American. Just isn't so, says the New York Post, same day (the J-A probably drew a wrong conclusion...
There, under a rust-colored banner bearing the legend "Trust in God and Work," the President received his sixth honorary degree, and extemporaneously admonished the nation: "Work, work, work! . . . Let me tell you a secret. Leadership isn't worth very much unless there are a few workers and followers. That is true on the farm . . . the coal mines . . . the railroads . . . the automobile factories . . . the mills. Get in line...
...five years he has played there. He would like to record Debussy's Clair de Lune, but it will be over the copyright owners' dead bodies. Says he: "You've got to give the public something it can hang onto-some real melody that isn't too long, too involved or too deadly. For instance, they want me to try the Moonlight Sonata, but that goes on too long. If anything goes beyond 32 bars it is hard for the public to assimilate...
...opinion of the Soviet regime has been much debated. One story goes that on visiting Paris as Russian delegate to a P.E.N. Congress, he brilliantly defended the regime; later among acquaintances in a bar he suddenly broke down, hammered the table with his fists, and cried desperately: "Only it isn't true! It isn't true...
...Amelia Goes to the Ball (1938) and The Island God (1942) got fair to middling notices, but they did not stay long in the Met's repertory.* Says Menotti: "Opera should be taken out of the museum. The trouble with opera isn't that it isn't what it used to be, but that...