Word: precisionism
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Japan's other enemies were Russia and China. Itagaki as War Minister, excusing his protracted failure to close the "Chinese Incident" and justifying bigger & bigger war budgets, stamped China's Chiang Kai-shek as a personal enemy to be exterminated. He repeatedly pointed to the U.S.S.R. as a...
Edwin Franko Goldman, 64, took up the cornet at 8, at 17 became solo cornettist of the Metropolitan Opera House orchestra. Goldman might have lived out his days as a virtuoso, but for his experience tootling in summer bands. Shocked at their slipshod playing, their lack of rehearsals, he bowed...
All stocks of 27 types of musical instruments were frozen last week by WPB, which also banned all further production after June 30. Band instruments now in manufacturers' and wholesalers' hands will be made available only to Army, Navy and Marine bands. Instrument makers will make precision instruments...
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Cleveland Orchestra conducted ) by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 8 sides). The first up-to-date recording of this popular classic. But Rodzinski's steely precision makes Mendelssohn's airy fairies march like storm troopers.
At air races, where he brought crowds up on their hind legs with the formation acrobatics of his Men on the Flying Trapeze, at fields where he was stationed as a flying officer, Claire Chennault never left anything to chance-beyond the possibility of a failing motor when his pursuit...