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Ominous Buffalo. Nobody but the professional astrologers ever know just when Thí-gya-min is coming or with what^ omens. If he carries a water jar, rains will be abundant during the coming year; if he bears a lantern and wears shoes, there will be a hot summer. This year, according to the astrologers, he arrived wearing a green dress, carrying a flower in one hand, a flower pot in the other and riding on a buffalo. That meant, of course, that cattle and crops would be badly damaged...
...Labor Party fathers touchily replied: "You really must accept our word that our experts know what we are doing...
...wearing his beard a little shorter than he used to, but I am never allowed to touch his eyebrows." Shaw likes to chat, and even lets the barber get a word in occasionally, but when the talk begins to bore him, he starts tapping his fingertips together. "I know the sign," says Harvey, "and I shut...
...first issues will carry no advertising. Explain the editors: "When twelve issues of The Reporter have been published, we will know who reads our magazine, and what they think of it . . ." But until The Reporter knew the audience it was aiming at, it was not likely to make...
Audiences can let a conductor know, any night in the week, what they think of him and his music. Last week, in separate essays, two great conductors told what they think of audience tastes, and of composers whose works they have performed...