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...years, Slonimsky has amused himself by collecting the world's most angry comments about music since the days of Beethoven. This week he published nearly 300 pages of them in his Lexicon of Musical Invective (Coleman-Ross...
...speeches, he reads it. His expression of religious faith is more than politician's lip service. Writing in the April Reader's Digest, Roving Editor Stanley High, one of Ike's campaign advisers and once a Congregationalist lay preacher, explains that, in Ike's lexicon, the "spiritual" needs of the U.S. rank ahead of political or economic ones...
...strange lexicon of Communist crimes, Moscow last week added a new one with a classic heritage: Pythagorism. The original culprit: Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher-mathematician (circa 582-507 B.C.) known to schoolboys as the geometric genius who first pinned down the proposition that the square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides...
...Hollywood, a man named Al Petker boasts that he has a warehouse packed with a million dollars' worth of merchandise-ranging from bakery rolls to cultured pearls. Petker is a Schlockmeister,* defined in the radio TV lexicon as "somebody in the business of giving away somebody else's merchandise." Like such other Schlockmeisters as Walter Kline, Adolphe Wenland and Manhattan's Waldo Mayo, Petker gives things away in return for just a kind word. But there is a slight catch: the kind word must refer to a particular product by its brand name, and it must...
...Congress-including such Senators as George, Carlson, Thye-and by such other conservatives as Justice Owen J. Roberts, Will Clayton, Joseph Grew, John McCloy, John Foster Dulles, James Wadsworth, Paul Litchfield, Harry Bullis (to name but a few), I take it that "visionary" is a compliment in your lexicon, and I thank you. But I must testify that Senator Kefauver has supported it not only "in theory," but in season and out-and so vigorously as to take Secretary Acheson sharply to task for holding up this resolution...