Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...
Last year's winner, Cornell, seems well out of the running for the crown but should wind up no worse than fourth in the final standings. The championship seems to lie betwen the members of the Big Three...
Battle fleets steaming eastward in the Mediterranean last week (see p. 30) put fresh fear in the hearts of the unhappy people who live in Southeast Europe. By land, too, danger came closer to those frightened neutral nations that lie in the path of eastward-looking conquerors. Troops stood ready for action a stone's throw from their frontiers; spies and quislings swarmed in their midst; while pressure politicians increased their demands for concessions and still more concessions. Signs of trouble...
...unpaid volunteer workers quietly secured the signatures during the past three weeks. As explained by a member yesterday, the Plan E Committee's strategy is to "lie low" during the spring, conducting an educational campaign and reserving its forces for a whirlwind fight next fall...
...reasons for this symphonic era are not far to seek. They lie, quite naturally, in the character of modern civilization, and its mechanized, accelerated tempo. Symphonic music means variety, and change of pace; volume, and diversity of tone color; filled with a potent appeal for the man who wakes up to the sooth sweetness of electric drills, and ends the day with one ear glued to a radio that blares. Even the programs of symphonic concerts, in their limitations, echo this love for the loud and violent. They are filled with music of an aggressive character, with strong rhythms...