Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 13 years of experimenting, Cage has managed to weld together ten works (Construction in Metal, Second Construction, etc.) for pipe-length, brake-drum orchestras, and, with six different "preparations," nine major works for piano. Necessarily expressionistic, one of his sonatas last week moved the New York Times to get a faraway look in its good, grey eyes: "The fourteenth sonata . . . suggested burro's hoofs on far-off cobbles, while a gentle church bell sounded sadly in the distance...
...visiting Easterner once quipped that "Los Angeles consists of 40 suburbs in search of a city." In the search, Greater Los Angeles supports the astonishing total of 258 newspapers-including five major dailies, 17 minor ones, 71 paid weeklies and 165 giveaways. The haphazard little community giveaways, which flourish in Los Angeles as nowhere else in the country, exist on the ads of local merchants, run only community news...
...Publisher Parton planned to merge the Shopping News with his seven other papers, call the new paper the Los Angeles Independent. He also set out to hire 50 newsmen and 150 ad salesmen. They will put out 10 to 15 semiweekly "sub-editions," in effect, community giveaways, for the major communities of Los Angeles. All the papers will have some features (fashions, movies, music, cartoons, etc.) in common. Los Angeles newsmen guessed that 36-year-old Parton's eventual aim, if the Independent succeeded, would be a citywide daily...
Rich Widows. As far as he could see, the college president of today was little more than a salesman who "scurries around the country seeking the company of rich widows . . . One gathers the irrefutable impression that the item of major concern ... is not the maturing of the individual . . . but buildings, large, spacious, attractive buildings . . . classrooms with all the new gadgets . . . dormitories with slick, shining, slithering bathrooms . . . The ethics of the counting house . . . too often replace the higher standards common once in education...
...N.C.A.A. noted his remarks respectfully, then went on record against any major changes in ig48's easy substitution rules...