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...Catchup. Most of the new breed had old family fortunes to build on, and they used that base imaginatively. Indian companies were formerly privately owned hodgepodges put together, without economic rhyme or reason, over the years. The new boys have turned their enterprises into stock companies to gain additional capital and are carefully tailoring operations so that they complement one another...
...courses offered at the Carpenter Center were only technical training, in the narrowest sense, this argument would have at best shaky validity. The process is as important as the plan in any of the arts, even if the concern is only with analysis. A practical knowledge of metre and rhyme is essential to adept poetic analysis, as is knowledge of brushstrokes to the criticism of painting or a knowledge of staging to dramatic criticism...
What is most important in performing McLeish is the skill with which his verse is read. Nightingale has avoided the obvious pitfall of over-emphasizing what there is of rhyme and meter. And if he nonetheless falls into a couple of others, they are decidedly secondary...
...Little Indians is an anemic copy of the 1945 film And Then There Were None, which was based on the stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's durable whodunit, which was inspired by the nursery rhyme. Unfortunately, nothing has been added but tired blood...
Lyrics are often the most serious problem. Zambia had no trouble deciding on an ancient African air for its melody, but needed verses which would rhyme in English and in its four major tribal tongues. To help the 250 entrants in its anthem contest remember the tune, the government ordered all Zambia radio stations to play it for three weeks. In Nigeria, where 250 languages are spoken, and in Ghana, where there are 56, the governments gave up and called for lyrics only in English; the anthems of most of former French Africa are written only in French...