Word: ticks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pruned so that the three regular men could handle the work, or else more competent instructors imported. "Conferences" occur once a month. These could be made more frequent if lectures were limited to one a week, and fuller criticism, the personal touch so necessary to make a composition course tick, would bring water to the thirsty lips of floundering writers. And the three sections could be divided into three of similar interests and abilities instead of the present three-way botch...
Last week many a Manhattan publisher, sucking at his pipe, pondered just such a professional. One of Manhattan's youngest publishing houses continued to tick off sales of America's No. 1 non-fiction best seller. That publishing house is Alliance Book Corp. Its best seller is Jan Valtin's Out of the Night, which has already pushed beyond the 400,000 mark. The man who could tell them how it was done is Alliance's President Henry Gunther Koppell, 46, who in two years has steered Alliance from a resounding flop with its first novel...
Most baffling of man's seven ages is adolescence. A few years ago a commission of the Progressive Education Association undertook to find out what makes adolescents tick. In a monumental five-year study it examined thousands, collected over 600 case histories. Fortnight ago a Swiss biologist and psychologist, Peter Bios, friend of Sigmund Freud, summed up the commission's findings in a report on four representative youngsters named Betty, Paul Mary and Joe (The Adolescent Personality; D. Appleton-Century...
...safely said that classical music is a manifestation of a higher, i.e. more advanced part of our cultural and intellectual development. It is usually subtler, more esoteric, frequently more ethereal and (or) profound. Jazz is less restrained, more primitive, and often closer, in my opinion, to what makes us tick...
...topping 50,000 a week. Last week Musicraft made a deal with a promoter (anonymous) to sell at least 1,200,000 Masterpiece discs next year in credit furniture and jewelry stores. The records will be sold, like silver or china, in packages of a dozen or two, on tick...