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...buckled down in earnest last week to a new project-WPA Factbooks. The Fact-books are supposed to be completed in 18 months, will sell for about $1, will be bound in durable but removable covers so that more facts can be added yearly. They will contain concrete and succinct data about whatever localities may wish to sponsor the Factbook project. Among other facts will be summaries of the work of the New Deal agencies-pretty good propaganda for the New Deal, quibblers pointed out, if it is still around by the time the first Factbook is published...
Fundamental reason, I think, is that symphony men have an idea that jazz consists of playing everything in dotted eighth-sixteenth time, with the result that you get a rhythm something like the rag-time of 1906. Jazz has a very succinct term for this type of playing: "corny...
...damned useful." Human minds cannot fairly be put into pigeon-holes. Nor can their opinions on a subject like tutoring at Harvard be accurately summed up in a flashy epigram. Each student thinks differently about it, and the collective opinion is a many-tentacled monster indeed. But in five succinct words, one student did succeed in roughly synthesizing the sentiments which the majority of his fellows nurse, and which they recorded in the Crimson poll...
...years ago the U. S. had its first peek at the book in an abridged form which reduced the 781 original ranting pages to a more succinct 297. This version sold some 25,000 copies. Seriously impaired by condensation, however, was the original's most important feature-its faithful prophecy of Hitler's subsequent aggressive foreign policy...
...honest peasant folk who domiciled on our landed estates in the neighborhood of Flushing, L. I. At an early age I recognized in him the guiding genius and spark which has, I am sure, contributed in no small way to his promotion to the editorial staff of your succinct and pithy publication...