Word: serialism
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...music was fatally stigmatized as "serial" by its won early champions, and the public image of cloistered men disgorging an endless series of mechanical monsters has yet to fade. People will always demand the ambrosia of the past, and contemporary composers refuse to serve it, a decision approaching martyrdom...
...before his eyes, starting with the youngest. "I was convinced they would do it," Bucher testified. "I was convinced they were animals. I told them I would sign the confession. And I did sign it." Even as he did so, he carefully added false information, such as an incorrect serial number, in a last-gasp effort to show that the document was a lie. After he had signed it, the Koreans rewarded Bucher with a huge plate of eggs. He could not eat them. Crushed, Bucher tried to drown himself in a bucket of water in his room...
...Post was intended for weekend reading, but nobody waited that long. Dad plunged right into one of Ring Lardner's You Know Me, Al baseball stories. As soon as she could get the magazine away from him, Mom settled comfortably with a mystery serial by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which inevitably began, "Had I but known. . ." The kids giggled at Little Lulu's cartoon antics. And of course everybody could enjoy the latest Scattergood Baines episode or grin wryly at the gas-station attendant on the cover - absentmindedly ogling a pretty woman driver while the gas tank...
...Midshipman (or Captain, or Commodore) Hornblower managed to leave himself in such parlous plight at the end of each installment that Post readers could not wait to get at next week's issue. Lorimer paid beautifully: $6,000 for a short story, $60,000 for a serial...
...West Palm Beach boat dealer reported that a man calling himself Arthur Horowitz had bought a 16-foot outboard, paying for it with $2,300 in $20 bills that he carried in a brown paper bag. Horowitz was, in fact, Krist, 23, the organizer of the Mackle kidnaping. Serial numbers proved that the money was part of the ransom raised by the girl's father, Millionaire Builder Robert Mackle...