Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sala Bim" is not just a series of card tricks but a continuous spectacle. One minute Dante draws gallos of beer from a dry keg, the next he is producing ghosts from empty cabinets and making one of his chorus (let's call it a chorus) girls vanish into thin...
...Schubert Second, recorded this month by Howard Barlow and the Columbia Broadcasting Symphony. I think you will find that for all its charm the symphony is but a pale copy of eighteenth-century models. Perfectly constructed in every way, harmonically and melodically and rhythmically irreproachable, still it is patently thin. It lacks the emotional guts that made a Mozart E-flat or Haydn 99th great. In short, it succeeds only as a technical imitation. Compare another early Schubert symphony, the Fourth or "Tragic," with its eighteenth-century counterpart, the Mozart G-minor. At first glance the two are strikingly alike...
Another convention highlight: Aviators' Blackouts. After breathing the thin air of high altitudes for a while, fliers sometimes faint when they gulp oxygen from their tanks or dive swiftly to richer air. In other words, their blackout may not be due to too little oxygen but to a sudden supply of too much. Last week the University of Pennsylvania's Pharmacologist Carl Frederic Schmidt, a top-notch U. S. respirationist, explained...
...native son, Henry Agard Wallace, enjoyed more than usual philosophic serenity. He had voted by absentee ballot about ten days before. Reporters had trouble finding him on election evening. He was having dinner with his campaign tour manager and former assistant in the Department of Agriculture, tall, thin, monosyllabic James Le Cron (whose wife is a sister of John and Gardner Cowles, Midwest publishers, ardent Willkie backers both). Unruffled as ever, the man who was certain to have a big-perhaps unprecedentedly big-assignment in the new administration sat before the radio, listened, finally unbent, told reporters he was gratified...
...clock. To the crowd in the ballroom, watching the board, the bitter, bad news was becoming apparent. Willkie's crusade was going the way of Peter the Hermit's. A desperate, dutiful note crept into the cheering. Slowly the crowd began to thin. On the 14th floor, sprawled narrow-eyed in his chair, the candidate chain-smoked, answered questions absently...