Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studied psychology under Freud, claims that he holds three degrees from assorted universities. On the ground that he doesn't want to be looked upon as an academician, he refuses to divulge the names of his alma maters. He abhors the U. S. educational system. "It isn't," he remarks, "worth a goodgoddam...
...recording of this type of arrangement can be an awful headache for a reviewer, simply because there isn't anything to say about it. It doesn't show much originality on the part of the composer, and seldom affords much inspiration to the band that plays it. On the other hand, it's difficult to put your finger on anything really bad about the record, except possibly the lack of originality. However, in my mind, an overdose of riff tunes will generally have a discouraging effect on jazz musicians. Any competent arranger can pick up a few old blues licks...
...ever written it-nobody: not even historians. . . . I believe the experiences of the Northern army are almost without parallel in the history of War; but out of what history can you get an understanding of it? Not out of one damned history. Or out of ten. And if that isn't a show-up for our historians. . . ." Privately he has said with unprintable interpolations: "They ain't telling the truth. The history of America has been -, -, and -I didn't have the faintest idea that we had sacrificed so much truth for intolerance...
...glutton for work, Dr. Millis declared that men should be willing to work ten or twelve hours a day in a national emergency, though 40 hours was enough under ordinary circumstances. "Where the work isn't fun the worker is under a nervous strain and needs leisure." For him, he said, work was fun, and he was willing to work 60 to 90 hours a week...
Since last September the University of Iowa has had a new art instructor. He never took a lesson in art, himself. Says he: "I don't believe in teaching art. It isn't something you can teach. The only thing I can do is keep students in a state of excitement about their work, to keep telling them that the worst thing they can do is to study, in the formal sense." Successor to famed Artist Grant Wood, this anti-teaching teacher is husky, slow-spoken, 36-year-old Fletcher Martin, whose drooping red mustachios make him look...