Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would like to nominate our "foreign policy twins," Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, as the Men of the Year. . . . SERAFINE PANCHERI JR. Iron Mountain, Mich...
...gaily colorful hobo-jungle especially adding to the beauty of the performance. The Duke Ellington music (book and lyrics are by John Latouche) is almost as rewarding with a score of pleasing melodies. Among the better tunes are "Take Love Easy," "When I Walk With You," "Tomorrow Mountain," "Tooth and Claw," and "Girls Want A Hero." Latouche's lyrics are particularly amusing in "Ore From A gold Mine" and "I Want To Be Bad." The east gives a performance of mixed quality. Alfred Drake (Oklahoma I's Curly) is in fine voice as Macheath, and Avon Long as Careless Love...
Five of Denver's radio stations chipped in a daily hour apiece (staggered through the day); newspapers printed "classroom" schedules. Director Allen Miller of the Rocky Mountain Radio Council auditioned 200 teachers, picked the pleasantest voices. With teachers looking over their shoulders, scriptwriters pressure-cooked daily programs about music, art, English, history, math. Sample, delivered in the best soap-opera style: a science story about a little girl who hears a newscast announcing the coal strike, gets her father (by coincidence, a chemist) to tell her all about coal...
This has been a strange dislocation and transformation for a man who was once nicely settled in Cambridge University as a teacher of philosophy with a passion for mountain climbing. Two things, however, failed to fit into this picture: his acute intelligence, which made him suspect that often the greatest philosophers don't make sense; and his conscience, which wouldn't rest till he found out why they failed to make sense. C. K. Ogden was then at Cambridge, and interested in the treacheries of the language, and together he and Professor Richards probed the question. Their findings were...
Though his life has to a large degree been concerned with Basic, Professor Richards is the author of "Foundations of Esthetes." "Practical Criticism," and "Meneins on the Mind." He is no mean mountain climber, and in 1937, 10 years after their marriage, he and his wife were the first to seale Dent Blanche, in the Alps--a feat that was duplicated only years later, and then by a professional-led group...