Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Aline Bernstein, 72, longtime top Broadway scene and costume designer (Reunion in Vienna in 1931, The Happy Time in 1949), longtime friend and confidante of the late Novelist Thomas Wolfe, model for Stage Designer Esther Jack in his novels The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...Virgil Thomson, is a smooth-gliding composition that would be more fun if it contained more of the surrealist ambiguity of Thomson's later style. William Schuman's five piano pieces called Voyage (played by Beveridge Webster) include two that find the composer more absorbed in the web of his ponderous sonorities than a listener ever could be; other movements titillate the ear with a kind of hectic animation...
...Action. In the talkative flesh, the U.N. often seems out of touch-an assemblage of political arachnids busily spinning a web of Whereases and Be-It-Resolveds. "The flow of speech and the spate of words in the United Nations are quite incredible and in time become insupportable.'' complained New Zealand's delegate. Sir Carl Berendsen. Pakistan's Zafrullah Khan once talked for two days, and set a U.N. record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones...
...subsequent three novels, Of Time and The River, The Web and The Rock, and You Can't Go Home Again, Rubin admits that they "are certainly not complete entities; the total impact is far from harmonious; and luminous passages are mixed in with opague and soggy passages." Wolfe himself at this period was "entirely dependent as a writer upon the quality of his memory, and the quality of the memories of manhood was infinitely poorer than those of childhood. There was far less perspective, and there was not the "space, color, and time" that the memories of his youth provided...
...trade associations. Virtually unchallenged and unregulated by the government, they have become almost a government unto themselves. By swearing their members to secrecy, running their own "police" force and courts and assessing their own penalties against anyone who dares violate their hard and fast rules, they have built a web of monopoly which daily grows stronger...