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...first lesson in Lipson's course concentrates on several Russian sentences that the students repeat in class. One of the sentence groups is a dialogue beginning, "Do you understand why the verb ends this way?" "No, I don't." "Well, let me see if I can help...
TIME makes a valid point in criticizing the current tendency of popular records to cannibalize one another. Singing verb conjugations of the You're All Wet (thesis), No I'm Not All Wet (antithesis), He Was All Wet and Now He's Got a Cold, Kachoo (synthesis) type is unforgivable. They are symptomatic of the control over radio programing that children and adolescents have today. Records that allude to one another and answer one another are designed to give the children who listen to them, buy them and dance to them a feeling of continuity...
...almost as popular as orange soda, and in Mexico he is the greatest national hero since Pancho Villa. His movies make millions, his baggy-pants burlesque of the bullfight draws the biggest crowds at any corrida, his tongue-tied twaddling and self-swallowing sentences have added a new verb (cantinflear) to the Spanish language...
Manhattan's own David Susskind, successful producer of safe-at-home TV classics and voluble critic of TV's lack of daring, has been, to use his favorite verb, denigrating Hollywood for years. "Hollywood has an advanced case of intellectual leprosy." he says. "It is sterile and bland. a place of languor and procrastination, of overwhelming provincialism." Hollywood's responses are equally engaging. "Susskind." says Oscar Levant, "is salami dipped in chicken fat." Yet there was Susskind. out in the Hollywood provinces last week, and not just to carry the battle to the enemy's home...
...write a piece for the Circle in the Square Composers' Showcase series, Cage sat down and worked out his basic time scheme according to the haphazard intersection of curves on a piece of graph paper. Then he asked the performers to write on 20 cards "a noun or verb or combination of both with which they would care to associate themselves." When a performer shuffles the cards and finds himself confronted with "carry fish" and "hit piano strings," what would be more natural than to whop the piano with a frozen carp...