Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington took startled note last week: a speech by Harry Truman had been well received. At the annual banquet of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the President had droned through a prepared address renewing his plea for the enactment of price controls. Then, when the radio microphones had been switched off, he tossed aside his papers and launched into an off-the-record talk "for background...
Mackenzie King had set his heart on breaking Walpole's record. When the great day came, no one knew exactly what to say. There had been so many landmarks to note in his long career that only weathered phrases were left. M.P.s rang what changes they could in the House last week. King himself declared with conscious modesty: "Today's record makes clear that to gain and to retain power in a free country . . . it is not necessary [to] be either a superman or a dictator...
...only tragic note in the contest was sounded when a sprinting Deacon slid into third baseman Bob Allport, and the latter suffered a broken ankle...
...answer is that there is much more to conducting than just keeping time; though even keeping time in a complicated score isn't always easy. At any given moment the flute player or the violinist is concerned only with his own note, which the conductor must blend-in time and volume-with the playing of 100 others. And while concentrating on the notes being played at any given moment, the conductor must also have one part of his mind listening to the entire piece. He must be on guard not to exhaust prematurely, in a too early climax...
...commission contained one pacifist, the Venerable Percy Hartill, Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent, who registered his disapproval of any kind of modern war in a minority note. But the report itself gave short shrift to his view: "There are those who say that the solution is to counter aggression by love. Ultimately that may be true. But is it applicable to the problem that confronts us? ... A nation that by disarmament rendered itself defenseless would not be assisting in the prevention of aggression, which is the only way to preserve justice in the world...