Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alma mater until it sets itself right. What Yale has to do, says Buckley, is to adopt a "value orthodoxy," a rigorous system of classroom and extra-curricular indoctrination plugging his and the alumnus' views. How, asks Buckley, can alumni get their money's worth when the old school isn't teaching what they believe...
This is the only time during the year that someone will approach you for a contribution. And every contributor can designate where his money will go, even to a recognized charity that isn't on the list. This year the campaign is starting early to avoid the mid-term rush, so dig down in your pocket and give generously...
...story lets Hammerstein make fun of theatrical temperament while showing the ultimate fate of those who lack it. But it plods as both story and satire, and a name cast-Jane Pickens, Charles Winninger, Dennis King, Conrad Nagel-does little to enliven it. The trouble with the book isn't just that it is old or uninspired, but that it is so painfully omnipresent. Music in the Air intrudes no clever lyrics, displays no chorus line, offers no dance numbers. This makes it as rare a bird among musicals generally as it is among Swiss ones for containing...
...reason the Navy is interested is the baffling problem that airplane navigators encounter near the North Pole. The magnetic compass isn't much good because of the nearness of the shifting magnetic pole. In broad daylight the navigators can steer by the sun, at night by the stars. But during the long polar twilight they can see neither sun nor stars...
...music in the air at a cushiony East Side Manhattan nightclub last week was jazz all right-but subtle and discreet jazz. It was partly the instruments; there just isn't much blare in a guitar, bass fiddle and vibraphone. But it was mostly the sandy-haired man behind the "vibes." Oldtimer Red Norvo undoubtedly was, as Metronome said, "the new thrill...