Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swell Party. But if nostalgic viewers missed the old principals, they were at least treated to some of the best Porter tunes, in a strikingly natty showcase: Dolores Gray belted out I Get a Kick Out of You and Just One of Those Things. George Sanders suavely suggested that he was singing C'est Magnifique. Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy provided the comic element, with some mild stabs of wit. Bing Crosby merely contributed a tune clipped from High Society (Now You Has Jazz), sung with Louis ("Satch-mo") Armstrong, whose galvanic Blow, Gabriel, Blow undoubtedly jazzed...
...trumpet with a bouncing sense of fun, and his Piano Concerto, which opens with an inferno of featureless percussion and sizzling .strings, continues with a slow movement of steamy mystery, and winds up with a recurring Latin American dance rhythm. Eeriest moments come when a flute seems to swell and shrink like a small-scale fire siren...
...later, while silent seafarers watched transfixed, Andrea Doria poised a polished fantail and motionless screws in the air, then slid down to the ocean's dark bottom. Behind her the sea bubbled and quivered a hundred hues of green. The surface shuddered, the bobbing rubble tossed on the swell until the liner was well down...
Watching professors struggle with bigger and bigger classes as enrollments inexorably swell, many a college president has eyed TV with a seemingly simple solution in mind: Why not put the professors on television and pipe it to several classrooms? Last week, in London's Sunday Times, Oxford Graduate Geoffrey Wagner, who took part in an experimental televised English-literature course as a lecturer at Columbia University, reported his personal experiences in terms that may give college presidents pause. His verdict: TV will...
Last Frontier? Poet-Novelist Franklin Folsom, a Rhodes scholar and onetime lettuce packer, may be just the agent to swell that number. He has illuminated his gloomy subject with literary style, and Exploring American Caves−with its scores of enchanting photographs and its bold plunge into virtually virgin writing territory−may prove to be classic cave literature. "Caves," proclaims Spelunker Folsom, "are, in a sense, the last frontier. [Those] who explore the underground night have yet to reach the end of even the best-known caverns in this country...