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...majority towards new works remains to blight the creative efforts of today's composers. Their works often become all the more mannered, even more unapproachable to the layman. Yet it is possible to accomodate the listeners and not sacrifice the newer sounds available in composition. Martino's Seven Pious Pieces, last Sunday morning's anthem at Memorial Church, exhibited a graceful modernity in contrast to the often-raucous exercises choirs deliver in contemporary pieces...
...moved in as editorial boss. The prospect is for a return to more traditional couture coverage. Brady, 43 and unemployed, took off still insisting he knows it all. Advertising is about to rise, he insisted, and his approach represents "the fashion magazine of the future, immensely superior to the pious essays, second-rate poetry and bad fiction of many women's books...
...would be again if he were to return to the Cabinet after a Nixon reelection. Cynical, too, was Stans' frantic drive to round up more than $10 million in donations before a new law would make public the identity of the donors, and in spite of Nixon's pious pronouncement that disclosure would "guard against campaign abuses and work to build
...immediate withdrawal has support in morality. Perhaps to abandon our allies in Asia without regard for their future is not the moral course but the expedient one. Doubtless thousands of students disagree with this analysis, but to refuse it they must apply more argument to the problem rather than pious phrases to placards. Clark Kerr put it well: "what's so smart about carrying a sign...
Piety. Flashbacks to a pious childhood as a missionary's son in Shantung province follow, along with some overdone conjecture about the psychological effect on Luce of the Boxer Rebellion, which forced his family to flee China temporarily when the boy was two. Then come a series of stories of Luce's rivalry at Hotchkiss and Yale with Briton Hadden, the eventual co-founder of TIME. It was Hadden who first laid on the early TIMEstyle back-to-front sentence structure and extravagant use of Homeric epithet. He also provided biographers with an indispensable, all-purpose anecdote, shouting...