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...Scotch commerce), spends hours doting on a road runner bird (symbol of the Old Spanish Southwest) in the pet department at Woolworth's (23rd Street branch). She opens her door to a bevy of characters as split-and-mixed as herself; they spin poetic stories in a troubadourish vein, seek peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances revolving in a dream world to the accompaniment of a fancy Goyen epitaph: "Her body became like a long yellow stalk, going...
...million pipeline from New Mexico's San Juan gas field to West Coast markets (TIME, Dec. 27). Workmen laying pipe through uranium-rich eastern Utah-western Colorado plateau area will be equipped with Geiger counters so that Pacific Northwest will not risk bypassing any promising ore vein...
More than half of the performing groups are college workshops, high schools and conservatories. Knowing that he will probably get his hearing in such a setting, and not at the conservative, perennially strapped Metropolitan, the U.S. opera composer writes in a certain vein. His typical product is a lightweight one-acter with few characters (although it may have a chorus, since singers are plentiful on campuses) and a small orchestra. Its plot is likely to be a fantasy with more moral than melodrama; one act is too short, and young artists are not best suited for grand passion. Its music...
...mimeographed editorial also stated that psychological examinations were usually "so arranged that unless the majority of choices are in the 'pietistic' vein, it is deemed that the man's aptitude lies in another field...
...were the only record outlets for such blues singers as the late Bessie Smith. Ma Rainey, et al. After the war, the offensive tag was changed to "rhythm and blues," but the contents remained the same, some of it root-primitive, most of it strongly rhythmical in the jazz vein...