Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nature. But not always. Last week the Boston Herald heaved an editorial sigh for the wintry seashore where "the moving sands swirl up the dunes and out gullied chimney tops . . . This is the time of smoking dunes." On its good, grave editorial page, the New York Times took note of winter: "Stand by ocean's edge and you can see, feel, hear and smell the grey waters. This is the darkening interlude when the sea changes its hue and forecasts winter . . . snow." And the silk-hatted Wall Street Journal stuck a straw in its teeth and complained against...
...cried Robert Baxter, "and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas is the greatest state in the U.S. and Dallas is the greatest city in Texas and the Rio Grande is the greatest insurance company in Dallas." This bit of bragging, down to the last note in its descending scale, was a fairly faithful expression of the exuberance and confidence of businessmen in 1948. They thought that the U.S. had plenty to brag about; it had poured forth the greatest flow of goods and services in history. It was the first real postwar year...
...forceful State of the Union address to Congress yesterday. With certain exceptions, he presented that lineup of legislative goals to the past two Congresses. And, with certain exceptions, those two bodies rejected the presidential suggestions. Yesterday, of course, there was an important difference--the Eighty-First Congress. The dominant note of suspicion and outright hostility between legislative and executive have vanished. Once more there is a victorious party in control of both governmental branches, a party elected on a platform of defined issues. There is consequently a feeling of relief in the country--even among opponents of the President--that...
Hindemith: Quartet in E Flat (the Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). Yale's Composer-Professor Paul Hindemith wrote this heavy quartet in 1943. Dreary in its slow movements, it even has a note of gloom in its bright ones. Performance and recording: good...
...consumers, there was a cheery note: sliding food prices had caused another drop in the BLS cost-of-living index. It was off 0.8% to 172.2 (1935-39 = 100), lowest in five months...