Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dinah Shore, said the reports, had just finished eight solid days of recording. The Andrews Sisters, who normally record 24 sides a year, would make nearly that many in the next six weeks. Crosby and Sinatra master platters were stacked ceiling-high. RCA-Victor had enough classical masters to last 25 years. Popular bandleaders were canceling fat dance dates to squeeze in recording dates. Everyone was getting set for the ban on record-making that James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the Musicians' Union, had ordered...
...written any tunes that are hummed in every U.S. household. But musicians rank him, along with Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg, as the best of the European expatriates now in the U.S. Bloch knows as much about strident dissonances and spastic rhythms as the next man, but he is their master, not their servant...
...Character, Master of the Repartee, take off. Your everloving public, or is it private, looks expectant. Pretty drunk out last night. wasn't it gents! Laughter from everybody-everybody except the High Forehead. Never had so much fun with my clothes on, though. Loud guffaws while to find out his name sometimes, the Vag thought, the High Forehead turned back to his pie. Ought Might be fairly intelligent. Vag looked at his damp, new cold potate, remembering the story he had told yesterday-of a B plus in a course he hadn't been to three weeks. The admiring smiles...
...might be expected from a dozen years of association, Lamar is an ardent disciple of Dick Harlow. "I learned most of my football around here with Dick," he declares and even during his two year wartime stint as head coach, he still considered himself an assistant carrying out the master's principles...
...order which it imposes and with the help of spectacular staging and one-way propaganda, dictatorship can at first assume a dynamic aspect which contrasts agreeably with the anarchy which preceded it. But it is the fate of dictatorship to exaggerate. . . . The nation becomes a machine which the master progressively and frantically accelerates. ... In the end the spring breaks and the grandiose edifice crumbles in sorrow and blood...