Word: precisionism
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Such Republican precision contrasted sharply with the hectic Democratic convention at Worcester the week before. It took the Democrats twelve hours and five ballots to nominate State Representative Robert F. Murphy for governor. For Senator they took only one ballot to endorse State Treasurer Foster Furcolo, who carried two distinctions...
Gymnastics & Glides. Leading Berlin ballet critics gave TIME this estimate: The corps is equal in precision and grace to any in the West. The male dancers are strong and athletic, but they are rarely graceful and are seldom soloists. Among the ballerinas, Galina Ulanova is not absolutely assoluta. When on...
"The most exciting thing in jazz is when a big band can make it," he says, trying to explain the obsession that returned him so often to the precarious profession. His first to make jazz was called "The Band that Plays the Blues," which blew its way around a swing...
A Lot of Nerve. This was no small thing to say, for St. Mary's Paulist Choir is one of the best in the world. It was well known in 1914, when twelve-year-old Eugene O'Malley first thought of joining it. He had read about its...
During the last war, few people at Harvard had as much right to be confused as Leigh Hoadley, master of Leverett House and professor of Zoology. "Grinding out pre-meds," he had to teach an army course, a navy-civilian course, and a double-time navy course--all beginning at...