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...miss Fortuny, Inc., or Publisher Flumiani. A particularly heartless and lucrative operator in what is known to the book trade as "vanity publishing," Publisher Flumiani was convicted of mulcting, since 1935, several thousand gullible authors of around $500.000 by making them pay for the publication of their books-mostly tripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Rotolactor | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...great, or even good, music. But hearing a thing like it now and then allows the public to re-evaluate its critical standards, and to re-assert or reject its opinion of specific works. For the good music to be rediscovered and best appreciated, a lot of tripe has to be dragged up with it. Besides, many people can get a pseudo-scholarly pleasure out of recognizing certain features even in a piece of very bad music. Everyone has heard at one time or another that in his early works Mahler devoted himself to studying the manifestations of nature...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 1/24/1941 | See Source »

...right, all the experts say so, Hitler says so, Marx says so, Christ says so, The Times says so,' he would reply in effect, 'Well, I wonder. Let's see.'... You would come away realizing that an opinion may be influentially backed and yet be tripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Woolf on Fry | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...Surrey, England: "I am trying to do a piece for the lads in this war. You know, though, they say it's only once in a lifetime that you do a masterpiece. But that wasn't a masterpiece, of course. The fact is, it was the utterest tripe, old boy, the utterest tripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...person by a great many bands. Among the crop of new outfits, trombonists Jack Teagarden and Jack Jenny and pianist Teddy Wilson have units worth watching . . . The public's taste in jazz has kept on improving; consequently, Mr. Shaw is finding things just a bit more difficult. His tripe isn't quite as easy to pan-handle this year . . . Benny Goodman has broken the biggest unwritten law in jazz by having a colored man as a regular member of his band. Fletcher Henderson was the choice. The idea is fine--the selection not awe-inspiring. Fletcher is a great arranger...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

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