Word: molds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Thursday, Eugene List provided the musical climax of the evening by his performance of the Liszt E Flat Piano Concerto, a work which he will repeat at tonight's concert. Mr. List is a young man who can mold an expressive lyrical line out of a passage which many others would use merely to display fast finger-work. The length of the concerto left him no time for encores, though the audience recalled him repeatedly. I for one would rather have heard another selection by him than such encore offerings of Fiedler's as Plink, Plank, Plunk...
...During his installation address as the new rector of Edinburgh University, Sir Alexander Fleming recalled a memorable moment: It was on a morning in September 1928 that he noticed some mold on a bacteria culture plate. The mold seemed to be destroying the bacteria. "That was very unusual. Instead of casting out the contaminated culture with appropriate language, I made some investigations. The more I investigated, the more interesting it became. I found that the mold made a powerful and nonpoisonous antiseptic. I christened it penicillin...
...peaceful town. Hull plays his part well. He is a warmhearted and highly ethical sheriff, father and husband. His wife's part, given to Betty Garde, is more difficult to play. The part gets the worst dialogue and least funny lines. Miss Garde is forced into the stock mold of a wife who gently bosses her husband, and she can't be blamed for failing to instill the role with any vitality...
...Hollywood, Lana Turner, who did her bit to make the public sweater-conscious, poured her well-known curves into a different mold, gave photographers a new waistline pose. Trussed almost breathless in a Gay Nineties corset, Lana said: "Girls with hourglass figures set off by those tiny waists had the right idea if beau-catching was their idea...
...imagine his camp, Mellern, under the Nazis. Instead of the eyewitness experience that served him so well in All Quiet and The Road Back, he has delved into official reports and the eyewitness accounts of others. To suffer imaginatively the experience of the victims and mold it into a novel would require a modern Dostoevsky. Novelist Remarque can only be given good marks for an honorable...