Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's checks could be waved away. The ten owners-Producer Oscar Serlin, Adapters Lindsay & Crouse, Mrs. Clarence Day, John Hay Whitney and the rest-saw Life With Father gross $973,000 on Broadway the first year, $860,000 the second, could still count on a tidy sum the third, while road companies grossed $2,000,000 more. Inwardly they rocked with laughter thinking of the $15,000 Warner Bros, had once offered for the film rights; but last year when Mary Pickford offered half a million, their no was just as brusque...
...been the demand that great music must arise from greatness in the composer himself, greatness not defined in terms of talent, fecundity, or energy, but in terms of character. The internal strength, in a sense, the moralness, of music is what binds it fast as an art to the sum-total of human history and behaviour. Like a piece of music, the life of a man is an improvization and development of a period of time. Both, to be great, must pack as much meaning and strength as possible into the time given...
...scheme got a tryout in Newton, Mass, last November, where every one of the 28 Christian and Jewish churches that took part raised a larger sum than it had the previous year-at a total promotional cost of only $45 per church for $250,000 raised...
Under the impetus of the new pledge drive by the War Service Committee the Harvard undergraduate goal has been set at a minimum of $1000 each week. Other colleges such as Yale, with comparable enrollments and student allowances, have consistently topped that sum and are continuing to do so. But even these standards are startlingly modest when balanced against the contributions of the millions of wage-earning "ten percenters...
...South was, in sum, violence, cruelty, humiliation, poverty, despair, sorrow, murder, a confusion between self-interest and selfless patriotism, of which Author Richards can write like a blow between the eyes, and which sometimes he overdoes. If corpses dropped less often than ripe plums, in less tricky postures of amazement at death, and if fingers moved less automatically to triggers, this would have been a better novel. Even as it is, a queer cross between a Freudian dream and a Grand Guignol shocker, it is good enough to suggest that it will almost certainly sire a better...