Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest by Shostakovich, who is co-star of Soviet music with Serge Prokofieff, is a "Victory" symphony, to complete his war trilogy which began with the brassy, repetitious Seventh ("Leningrad"). It has an unorthodox five instead of four movements, but is shorter (25 minutes) than most symphonies. Shostakovich, who wrote it in ten weeks after three false starts, was afraid his frail little Ninth would not stand up against Beethoven's great Ninth ("a frightening responsibility") or the critics. "They'll say, 'We expected something grandiose from you and you are giving us a lark.' " Reported...
Such a large and complex undertaking could hardly hope to have the extraordinary intensity of shorter, more single-focused films like San Pietro and Tarawa. But it is made, all the same, with force and fervor and intelligence. It is the richest single record of the war and one of its greatest pictures...
Along the Northwest Passage to the Orient, Northwest will have two advantages over its mid-Pacific rival: 1) most of the flying will be overland, where emergency bases can be built; 2) the route will be shorter. New York will be 9,537 air miles from Manila via Northwest's route, v. 10,588 miles via San Francisco and Honolulu...
...savages in Australia and Africa; 3) civilized men of all races are becoming more & more roundheaded, probably as a result of rising from all fours to an erect posture, which changes the form of the spinal column and of the skull base. The trend toward a broader and shorter skull, says Dr. Weidenreich, has not reduced modern man's brain; it remains about the same size as that of the Neanderthal man. According to the latest theory, brainpower depends not on shape or size but on configuration of the brain surface and on the development of the cerebral cortex...
...spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, which ranges from the extremely short cosmic rays (trillionths of an inch) and gamma rays (which are released in an atomic bomb) to extremely long electric power waves (6,000 miles), radio and light waves are almost next-door neighbors, though light waves are much shorter than radio...