Word: organism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, Melody in A Major has appeared in many incarnations, including arrangements for violin, pipe organ, alto sax, and in 1951 Broadway Veteran Carl (Bongo Bongo) Sigman wrote some lyrics for it. But it took another seven years to the end of the long, long road from the McKinley Administration to the Hit Parade. Last summer M-G-M hauled out the old song, gave it a slushy arrangement halfway between rock 'n' roll and a ballad. By last week It's All in the Game was the biggest "new" hit in the country, ranked...
...plush, with every dusty, looped inanity. every faded, tasseled cliche in place. Joshua Logan's staging nowhere intrudes a jarring present-day touch. Though the swarming street and cafe passages have hurly, and sometimes burly too, the more intimate scenes are all played largo, with silences like swelling organ notes, stares into space that pulse with tension, and pauses aquiver with heartbreak...
Last week's issue of the Radcliffe News predicted that a failure to sell subscriptions to one-half of the college would result in the cessation of publication. "If the News fails to get the requisite number of subscriptions, it must necessarily disappear, leaving Radcliffe with no organ to express student opinion," the lead article stated...
...keep under purview the adherence of all" Arab neighbors to the amity pledge they gave in last summer's U.N. resolution, Hammarskjold set up in Jordan's capital of Amman a new "U.N. organ," in the person of Under Secretary Pier P. Spinelli of Italy. He in turn would have other watchdogs in Beirut and Damascus -but not in Cairo, where President Nasser insists there is no need...
After a period of fights between the President and Parliament, the former consented to fade away, without ever using again most of his extensive powers. The final victory of Parliament, the only thoroughly representative organ elected by universal suffrage, is more likely than autocracy to come out of this Constitution. We would be back almost where we began...