Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judged from an aesthetic standpoint (with due apologies to Mr. Copland for using that word here) the band is not altogether unbearable. Once in a while, if you listen patiently, you can dissect from the wild conglomeration of over-arrangements an interesting tenor chorus or a refreshing break by a trumpet or trombone. In fact most of the solos are really worthwhile in comparison to the greater portion of the music heard north of 125th St. So if you're tired of Frank- the Radcliffe-conception-of-virility-Sinatra and your soul cries our for some musical satisfaction, fall...
Money Counts. In Los Angeles, 70-year-old Sanger E. French, married 50 years, finally got a divorce, explained that he would have done it 25 years before, but "it wasn't expedient from the standpoint of finance...
...TIME, Dec. 6, 1943, which an American soldier gave me, there are some remarks on the attitude of Englishmen towards the U.S. men. I was very sad to read of this, and I want, if possible, to try and explain the position from our standpoint...
Lest the amply fed think that India's immense misery had passed, an American missionary wrote home a letter: "It will take at least five years to recover from the effects [of 1943's famine] from a health standpoint, and more than that to recover from a moral standpoint. . . . The poor have sold off their goats, chickens, cattle, brass vessels, ornaments, and the like in the past hard year and are far less well prepared to meet the exigencies of another such year...
...Name of Magnin. From a corporate standpoint, Bullock's, with almost three-quarters of the combined gross business, will be top dog. The deal, in which no money changes hands, provides for an exchange of stock (three and a half shares of Magnin's for one of Bullock's), whereby Magnin shares will shortly disappear. Not so the name of Magnin-so long as either its 73-year-old president E. John Magnin or his 57-year-old brother, First Vice President Grover A. (who are also the company's largest stockholders), have anything...