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...chose "something softer": Embraceable You. When she reached the line "Above all I want my arms about you," the pilot averted his eyes but kept grinning. After she left the ward, she found that he was armless...
Stravinsky's arrangement of a suite by Pergolesi, by contrast retained only the form and melody of the original, progressively adding more and more idiom to each of the eight dances. There was, however, within the movements, considerable alternation between the two styles, the softer and slower passages being nearly pure Porgolesi, the louder and faster passages principally Stravinsky. There were the typical Stravinsky cross-rhythms, two against three, throbbing dissonances in the trombone and basses, mechanically repeated figures for pizzicato strings, and, at the end, circus-style trombone "smears" for satirical effect...
Last fall Henry Morgenthau got enough whacks from the banking community to fracture a softer skull. Over the dead-body opposition of almost all U.S. bankers, the Treasury Secretary insisted on shoving through a $4 billion bond issue of 1½% notes of 1946 and 2% bonds of 1952. The issue barely squeaked through for a total of $4,100,000,000, whereas most issues theretofore had been oversubscribed 50% or more. Even to achieve this the Federal Reserve begged the banks to increase their subscriptions, offered to take over all the banks didn't want. (Subsequently they...
...barely gotten through. There were 87 people in the doomed party-about half of them children, and half of these less than six years of age. "They were going to California ... to live out their days in the languorous, winterless country. . . . The younger children would grow up in a softer, more abundant life-and their gentility would not be impaired." George Donner's wife, Tamsen, took along "apparatus for preserving botanical specimens, water colors and oil paints, books and school supplies . . . for use in the young ladies' seminary which she hoped to establish in California...
...Moon Is Down (20th Century-Fox) presents the cinema audience with a ready-made controversy. As novel and play, John Steinbeck's fable about a Nazi garrison's nervous breakdown in Norway kicked up a loud literary row. Were Steinbeck's Nazis softer than the real thing...