Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brewing in the realm of dim possibility is a series of six epochal jazz concerts, under the title of "Cavalcade of Jazz." When and where and how, nobody knows, but one of the biggest agencies in the country is handling the affair, and after the success of the Ellington and Kirby concerts, such a grandiose idea may bear solid fruit...
...Bell Strikes 12. The divergence between his aims and his mother's was growing wider. In the boom years Mrs. Wolfe speculated in real estate. Tom wished her success, but warned her against losing "the capacity for enjoyment. . . ." In the strange mixture of bad, sincere, flamboyant prose that ran through all his writing, he spoke his unhappy mind: "The golden years of my life are slipping by on stealthy feet at nightfall; there is a footprint in the dark, a bell strikes 12, and the flying year has gone. . . . The great play is yet unwritten; the great novel beats...
...otherwise. "I understand," she said, "that Tom has written up the family and the people and - has given them terrible names, and all." "Why, that's all right," said ambitious Mrs. Wolfe, "even if he calls me old Caroline Peavine. I says, 'Why, if he makes a success of it,' why I says, 'I'll stand...
...still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, the fundamental things apply as time goes by").* The composer: massive, white-haired Herman ("Dodo") Hupfeld, who wrote it in 1931. The plugger: a short, stocky Negro named (Arthur) Dooley Wilson, who started this forgotten ditty toward its sensational present success by the loving way he sang it in the Warner Bros, movie Casablanca (TIME, Nov. 30). Dodo and Dooley met at Manhattan's Greenwich Village Inn, where the veteran Negro minstrel was doing a singing turn...
Most of the Departments, surely, are strongly interested in tutorial and convinced of its success. Certain science fields have often been exceptions, since an hour of lab seems to many far more valuable than a personal talk. But an important area for science tutorial would be the liberal arts approach to those sciences, the history and application of the scientific method. A strong policy by the College of recognition of tutoring would help this problem as well as that of manpower; faculty-men would be more willing to tutor if they felt it was an important part of the curriculum...