Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to the easy Mexican tempo and to the admiring friends who gather round Rivera wherever he appears. His courtesy and rocklike equanimity in answering every question Eliot and Mrs. Brine put to him were most impressive. Rivera, in turn, was impressed by Mrs. Brine's almost continuous note-taking. Whenever she stopped recording his conversation, it worried him. Once, when she paused for a rest during a discussion of Rivera's experiences in the U.S., he gestured toward her notebook. "No," she explained, "we can't possibly print everything...
Cores & Muddles. Whether the uproar had suddenly caused the conferees to change their minds or whether they had hoped to sell their cause by moderation in the first place, the conference itself got under way on a deceptively mild note. At first, the show might easily have been mistaken for an election rally for Henry Wallace, where the party line was pushed, but not too obviously. In fact, the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, which sponsored the conference, had also espoused Wallace's candidacy. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Harvard astronomer and chairman of N.C.A.S.P., a veteran advocate...
...Perkins noted that the letter had the merit of raising specific points which might or might not be sound, but which would bear investigation. He sent the letter to Bender with a note to this effect and later received a reply from the Dean...
...informal Harvard polo team ended the indoor season on a glorious note of triumph Saturday night in New Haven's riding academy, as they galloped from behind in the fourth and final chukker to defeat the Yale J.V. squad, 12 to 10. The poloists had to score five goals in the last minutes to pull out their upset...
...night, 2,000 Brooklynites piled into the Academy of Music, cheered for two minutes in sheer local pride before the orchestra even played a note. A well-played Beethoven Fifth had them applauding at the end of each movement, but the Don Carlos brought down the house. Then came a pranking Till Eulenspiegel and (for an encore) one of Conductor Zipper's native Viennese waltzes. Brooklyn loved it. Breathed perspiring Conductor Zipper: "I'm so grateful...