Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prokofiev didn't show up in person to recant his sins. He was ill, the meeting was told. But he was already at work on a new opera about a Soviet pilot who learned to fly again after losing both legs. He promised to follow party directives, and use plenty of Russian folk songs. So did the other six composers spanked by the party. (The promise came easiest to Aram Khachaturian, who has always borrowed freely from Russian folk music.) Two other composers-one was Dmitri Kabalevsky -who were not even named in the decree, confessed their errors...
Penicillin's toxic or irritant effect is "unimportant," except when it is injected into the spine; then it may cause convulsions. A few patients may get a rash, no matter how the drug is given; sensitivity may follow use of the drug, so it should not be used for minor ailments...
...three weeks, they swam, hiked and fished, but mostly they explored. They took a trip in a covered wagon; they were shown, as well as told, what early pioneers had to put up with. They cooked their own meals, and put arithmetic to practical use by dividing pounds of hamburger by the number of mouths to feed. The sight, sound, and smell of trees and flowers freshened their vocabularies; watching lumbering and farming widened them...
They also lopped $800,000 from the estimated construction costs by persuading the City Council to permit the use of lightweight vermiculite instead of concrete to sheathe the steel girders against fire. This saved so much weight that they were able to use lighter girders, eliminated 1,200 tons of steel. Another big office-building job, Prudential Insurance Co. of America's $8,500,000 building, will be the lightest building (per square foot) in Los Angeles...
Voyage Surprise (French). Writer Jacques Prévert (Children of Paradise') and Director Pierre, his brother, following René Clair, use their highly sophisticated talents on the style perfected in the old Mack Sennett and Chaplin comedies. The story: a slap-happy cross-country French tour, complicated by saboteurs, stolen crown jewels, and burlesqued pursuers. The picture has an air of reckless and generally happy improvisation. It fails to develop and pay off its comic points brilliantly enough, but it is thoroughly enjoyable...