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...poet and the jazzman met in a San Francisco basement, aptly named The Cellar, to discuss a fusion of the arts. "In Now with Winter," said the poet, "we try something slow and soft. In Artifacts we want a sax solo, like the thrill is gone...
...crime is than how gratuitous: it lacks an understandably human motive. Clinically, the crime can be explained: given a lawless Jazz Age, two badly spoiled, rich men's sons, a homosexual neurosis and a Nietzschean intellectual arrogance, and such a chemical mixture may explode into murder-for-a-thrill. But the case-and its causes -remain too special to expand into identifiable bedevilment in man's fate. It is Grand Guignol in real life...
Furrows in Murrow. As a performer, Murrow has expert technique. During the blitz, when he served as Britain's Boswell, his "This [pause] is London" carried the thrill of Britain's finest hour across the Atlantic. His timing can make silence more eloquent than words. Between his ominous tone and his spare, understated writing springs a tension suggesting that, as one listener put it, "he knows the worst but will try not to mention...
...lending library and ping-pong tables, President Wilde found hirings up 70%, turnover down 20%. And from Architect Bunshaft, already applying the hard-won discoveries on half a dozen even newer buildings, there was a satisfied, "I think this is the best job we've done. The big thrill is to see a dream happen...
...Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary, 52-year-old Nathan Leopold, convicted 33 years ago with Richard Loeb for the thrill murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, waited impassively for the decision that could commute his 85-year sentence to 64 years, free him by the year's end with time off for good behavior. When the news came that Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton had refused clemency, the pudgy, ailing onetime child prodigy told reporters, "I stand at the open graveside of my hopes." Later he said he would make a third appeal for parole...