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The reason is not Lewis' music per se. His band has at times had first-class hot-jazz players (Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, George Brunies*). But usually the musicians are purely a supporting cast to Lewis himself. He is a one-man synthesis of U.S. show business...
The Duke is a tribute. The 29th book of Richard Aldington, 51, and his best, it is to the vast library of material on Wellington what Reader's Digest is to the accumulation of writing in U.S. magazines - an expert job of condensation and synthesis, inspired when its source...
"Everyone," he says, "has a right to grouse about English A" because too few people have been let in on the secret of its aim. It seeks to improve not only writing but also reading and thinking, with which writing must be inevitably connected. English A is therefore a synthesis...
Under the strain of war exigencies which have shortened by half the average undergraduate career, it has proven necessary to limit the reading period to a fortnight. But undergraduate criticism has centered not so much about the curtailed time of the period as about the increasing disorganization and waste of...
His was the age of steam. The field of thermodynamics was the springboard from which Gibbs launched his powerful thought of "universal application" in science-and beyond. His work lay not in experiment but in synthesis-the formulation of universal laws. ("The whole is simpler than the sum of all...