Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that has been almost totally absent from Harvard's and Radcliffe's literary magazines in the recent past. But even the very best of these stories crics out time and gain for cutting, for clarification, for a different word here, for an additional sentence there. And that is to say that although Signature is at last getting work by authors who have something worth writing, the magazine is not yet supplying editorial assistance to those authors to make the finished product polished and consistently first-class...
...together all along, if a nice legal way could be found to do it. In the old days, record makers paid royalties directly into the union's welfare fund, which Petrillo controls. The Taft-Hartley Act stopped that: it forbade the union to have the sole say-so on the fund. Now that everyone was friendly again, neither side expected any trouble in finding a neutral trustee to handle the money, acceptable both to Uncle Sam and to Little Caesar Petrillo...
...butt end of a guitar came out slowly through the curtain, its varnish glittering, followed by the arm, shoulder and figure of Josh White. And so it went throughout the evening--the guitar and music came first and Josh, the person, appeared only when the music stopped, to say a word or two or wipe his lips. With each song, the chords would sound first, loud and vigorous; then the words would rush in between the chords, pushed forward by the tapping of White's foot and the beat that filled the hall. Josh joined forces with each song, giving...
...music predominated, but he final song was "Strange Fruit" and Josh was no longer a "troubadour" as the program announced. "This song needs no introduction," he said. As he sang, he became a witness for the Negro people, a person with something to say, not an entertainer with a guitar. He told of the mournful South where men are still hanging from the trees, the "strange fruit" that is everyone's poison. Cheers and clapping followed the guitar off the stage but the praise was all of Josh White...
...Texas has to have a chance to talk to Park Avenue; son of the milliner must really get to know son of the minor. To make this great barter of ideas work has been the big job of the House Plan. After 15 years of the Houses, can we say that they have done this job, and done it well...