Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davenport, Iowa City, Oxford and Grinnell, Harry Truman stepped out on the rear platform, with Margaret beside him, to give them hell. "Them" was the Republicans. "The issue is the people against the special interests," he said. Proof? "All you need to do is review the record of this Republican Soth Congress...
MOVIE THEATERS, announced the newly established Television Research Institute, will be practically empty by 1955, and there will be 24 million TV sets in U.S. homes. But TV will need "three to four times the total annual output of the U.S. film industry." Who is to pay for this increased output? "The simple truth is that either pictures must be made more cheaply or a method must be found for the public to foot the bill...
...taken him a happy half-hour. In the film, Matisse gives away the secret of that effect, letting the camera peer over his shoulder while he draws his grandson's portrait again & again and then paints a bit from a girl model. The secret: speed of execution (which need not imply hasty conception...
...need to understand music," Villa-Lobos says. "You feel it." The music he feels is all the music of his own country. He grows angry when an unwary guest tells him that he sometimes sounds like a Brazilian Gershwin ("A child compared to me"), would be better pleased to be put on a par with Stravinsky ("Formidable!"). Actually, at his best, Villa-Lobos is like no one but himself. Says he: "I only ask that the maker of a piece of music be original. I do not care to walk in company with routine...
Like most other college coaches, the Crimson's track and cross country leader, Jaakko Mikkola, has a special fondness for Freshmen. "We need good Freshman runners badly," he says, "because they are the core of our future Varsities--successful Freshman teams mean successful Varsities and vice versa...