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...George," the automatic pilot, had been set by the human pilot before he died. The Catalina, her body riddled but her engines intact, drummed along through the sky. Keene had time to muse, stand around for "quite a while," open an after-hatch and gaze down 6,000 feet at the expanse of empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Ordeal of Corporal Keene | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...whip up team spirit for conductors and orchestras, do so partly from lack of anything better to do, and partly to give themselves some kind of community dignity. The fault lies with the institution of music criticism, which, as it stands now, does more damage to its ailing Muse than it does good...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...feathery brushwork that later made him so rich a man and so sentimental a landscapist. This less familiar period of Corot's work is represented by 22 canvases. Only the most fanatical Corot connoisseurs will recognize in these masterpieces the painter of so many gloomy women (The Pensive Muse, The Pensive Woman, The Gypsy with the Basque Drum), so many prancing nymphs and paintings like The Bacchante and the Panther, in which a nude woman holds up a dead bird to a panther ridden by a nude cherub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nonpoisonous Painter | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...List, WLP will attempt to meet the distraction of the football game with Army tomorrow afternoon by offering more classical music. However, the powers that be in this newest radio station are conceding that Saturday night is not the time to study with the aid of the musical muse, and are going off the air at 5 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WLP Broadcasts To Mather Today | 10/23/1942 | See Source »

...with the war rejuvenating old ideals and creating a will to fight based on something higher than just a standard of living, we may have the stimulus for stronger and more spontaneous music. If the old muse still has any life in her, this global struggle should serve to draw...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/7/1942 | See Source »

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