Word: patchworks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toughest obstacle to school consolidation in Illinois is its archaic patchwork of 11.957 autonomous boards of education (there is no state board), which are a minor but profitable branch of politics. Today their schools, even though they have only three pupils, get state aid based on a minimum of 18. But beginning next July no more state funds will be given to schools enrolling fewer than seven students. This, as well as the teacher shortage, should speed the trend toward consolidation...
There were more new pieces for the patchwork of U.S. wartime living last week...
...Ship Fleet. The Boise was a tired ship as she nosed up the Delaware River to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Patchwork covered a gaping hole in her hull, her tall mast was scorched by flame, great blisters of paint bulged from her stanchions. Hundreds of shell fragments had scarred and pocked her. But she moved proud and unfaltering through the early-morning haze. In the Solomons that terrible night in October, she had slugged it out with six Jap warships, had taken everything they threw at her, had lost 107 of her men and all of her beauty-but every...
...composer, it would be. A composer, after mastering the fundamentals, should be a law to himself, developing consistently and systematically in one style. Too much knowledge of other men's music often results in the musical hash you find occasionally in Mahler, who anticipated T. S. Eliot's patchwork technique in this respect. A conductor, however, has to "get inside" a Bach or Debussy, and to interpret a number of radically different styles in the spirit in which they were used. Stokowski, always the actor, can't restrain himself from making self-revealing comments in program notes and short speeches...
...Administration is going to have another fling at making sense of its patchwork of press and information bureaus. Plans for it were cooking last week. It was a plan of Rooseveltian caliber; and it added more alphabet to the soup...