Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working under the understandable theory that its program produces best results only in the "Well equipped" man, the Business School is extremely particular in-choosing its students. There are three applicants for every available place, and thus the Admissions Office has a wide enough selection to pick the men it considers the potential business leaders of the future...
...have got it right from his neighbors that he has the reputation of being a gunman and in this particular case he ... had a very beautiful weapon and was . . . prepared to do the work of a gunman. He was charged on two other occasions with doing the work of a gunman and, somehow or other, got out of it. Now I commit him to the penitentiary for one year...
...Irish whiskey and demolishes a half dozen or so of his comrades in a friendly bar-room test of strength--one of the three interior scenes in the whole picture. These scenes, in the best tradition of the Western, have never been done better. This movie is a very particular kind of classic. If you like that kind...
...room after that hour. He may realize that the protection of his guests' reputation is a factor in the College's rulings, or that an out-of-hand party can be just as disturbing to other House residents as to the College. But he does not see why one particular hour is the magic dividing line between right and wrong, nor why a more satisfactory plan could not be worked out to make the college seem more hospitable to guests whose morals may be better than those attributed to them by the Dean...
...Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Sternberg. Most interesting of the seven: Haydn's First, composed when he was 27, and his Thirteenth ("Jupiter"), which seems to reflect his happiness with his new job as musicmaker at the Esterhazys, a job he held for 30 years. Also of particular interest: No. 48 ("Maria Theresa"), which heralds the arrival, in the distance, of the mature symphonist. Of his later and more familiar works, RCA Victor offers a superbly warm performance of No. 93 (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Guido Cantelli conducting; 6 sides). Recording, on 45 r.p.m.: excellent. London FFRR...