Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Center Ring. The main ring in Washington's three-ring circus is the official circle. Here are the big governmental names which the successful hostess, of whatever circle, must catch. Most of them are ready to be caught: they hold offices of high prestige and medium salaries, which limit their own powers of entertaining. In, this ring, Perle Mesta is supreme...
...Percussion. It was clearly the big attraction of the evening; in fact, I thought Sanders Theater would fall in a heap from the applause when it was over. Just how much of the work's impact comes from powerful writing and how much from the force of the medium is hard to tell on first hearing. It seemed to me that much of the percussion part was only reinforcement, especially in the first movement. The two elements have a clearer relation to one another, however, in the last two movements, when the timpani picks up a theme from the pianos...
General Motors surprised the motor industry, and everyone else, last week by cutting the price of its cars. It was not a deep slash-from $10 on Chevrolets to $40 on Cadillacs-but it was a cut, nevertheless. Light and medium trucks, which are getting harder to sell, were reduced...
...expanded English C, if they wish. Integrated into the new set-up will be a much stronger emphasis on writing for specific purposes, the type of writing that will be most valuable to people when they graduate. The familiar English A themes will give way to a string of medium-length papers in the basis GE courses, making the student's writing a tool to aid him in learning, not an educational obstacle to be overcome and forgotten...
...coated moralities daily gushing forth from the radio. Nothing is said, or shown, on these subjects, or any other in the film, that must not have occurred to any thoughtful person, but it is vicariously satisfying to hear them from the silver screen at long last. The strongest propaganda medium in the world has been here put to good...