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...bastard offspring of the two. It is, in the long run, speech, written down in this way because I find it convenient, and those who speak it may also occasionally find it helpful." Mry Fry's glittering poetry is fun to listen to. Ignore the meaning, and watch it soar and spin about the page or stage, like a toy airplane would too tight that swirls crazily, bumps into a chair (laughter), backs up a bit, and takes off again...
...Fouga Cyclone. With its wide wingspread and light construction (1,182 Ibs.), it not only looked like a glider but could fly like one. Apparently to make up for the heavy fuel consumption of the jet motor, the Cyclone's makers said that the plane could soar in updrafts for miles with the motor shut off, land at only 45 m.p.h...
Haydn: Quartet in D Major, Op. 64 No. 5 (Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). This quartet, the "Lark," does not fly with quite the grace and charm of Haydn's earlier and better quartet, "The Bird" (Op. 33, No. 3). The Budapesters don't soar with their earlier ease either. Recording: fair...
More spectacular still are the "prominences": vast, arching flames of incandescent gas ejected with enormous speed (see cut). They rise at 400,000 m.p.h. and soar to hundreds of thousands of miles above the surface. Other prominences appear out of nowhere, high above the surface, and seem to fall like water from a hose. Some of the material in prominences and other solar disturbances may be blown as far as the earth, causing the electrical storms that knock radios haywire...
...Britain's Leicestershire, but the critics agreed that it had one really notable painting. Figure 8, Skegness, the picture they singled out, showed a whirl of bright-colored roller-coasters against a sea blobbed with boats. Wrote one critic: "A fine specimen of modernism by the Barrow-on-Soar artist, Thomas Warbis ... A study of it will be all the more interesting in view of the present controversy in the art world concerning a famous artist's [Sir Alfred Munnings] attack on modernism." Added the Loughborough Echo: "Mr. Warbis' [picture] will prove the subject of a good...