Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princeton student named James A. Lebenthal turned in his 33,000-word senior thesis on a wire recording. The thesis, a review of Tom Dewey's tactics in capturing the G.O.P. presidential nomination, took five hours to play...
Evita was willing. After all, if she sent help to the poor in the U.S., her descamisados would have new and dramatic proof of her great heart. Besides, after all the coolness in Washington every time her friends suggested a U.S. trip, it would be fun to play the role of Lady Bountiful...
...producer who had asked him for a play, William Saroyan scribbled his thanks and regrets on a postcard: "I do not believe any producer can afford to produce one of my plays. They are all potential failures, and my terms are unfair. Jim Dandy has been published (and unproduced) a long time. A great play; a surefire money-loser...
Crop-haired Composer Cage, who looks like a Huck Finn grown to 36, is trying to compose music that is really "atonal." Says he: "Atonal music was excellent in theory, but there were no atonal instruments to play it." He wanted "sounds" instead of "tones"; he found them in junk yards, bone yards and hardware stores-brake drums, pipe lengths, asses' jaws-and in his prepared pianos...
Only the "long life" needles couldn't take it. "It took four or five needles to play all the records," the technicians noted, "but we had two turntables and changed the needles...