Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith's frequent use of the phrase "off the record" gave a new boost to an old, and often helpful, journalistic practice. It permitted top Government officials to let down their hair before the press -without getting into trouble in the process. By giving a frank-and unquotable-explanation of the background behind official actions, bigwigs had often helped reporters do a better job of interpreting the news. But the handy phrase has long since gotten out of hand. Last week Managing Editor Norman E. Isaacs of the St. Louis Star-Times charged that editors who persisted in kowtowing...
...never made a virtue of obscurity, but there's always more than one level of interpretation to a thing. For instance the rock symbol is bound to be enigmatic. Biblically it's the deity, the source. This rock started out spherical, egg-shaped. Then in the process of working it out I made a fission, a break in it. There's a lot of destruction going on all through the picture-the phosphorescence of decay-but I think the emphasis is on construction. Compositionally the figures and the smoke all spiral toward the building being done...
Columbia handed Harvard's varsity basketball team its eighth straight defeat Saturday, 86 to 49, and in the process the Crimson helped their hosts to a new Lion scoring record. Their 37 field goals and 12 free shots surpassed a former high of 76 point against Princeton last season...
Columbia's Lorton Reformatory, then had to wait and see if the volunteers developed the expected thick "sinusitis-like" type of cold. Dr. Atlas and Biochemist George A. Hottle started looking for a way to speed up the testing process. Finally, in last week's issue of Science, they reported success...
Shostakovich, in his music for the Young Guard (TIME, Oct. 25), and Aram Khachaturian, in his score for a film on Lenin, had managed to "reorganize" themselves. Other composers had begun "to rebuild their work," although "the process of their reconstruction proceeds slowly." But Prokofiev's work still smelled of the "marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture." Said Khrennikov: Prokofiev obviously had not "drawn the necessary conclusions from the decree of the Central Committee...