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...Four-Day Whirl. In Brandeis' canvas-topped amphitheater, he whirled through four days & nights of conducting (his own opera. Marc Blitzstein's new English adaptation of Kurt Weill's Three-Penny Opera, a dance work and a symphony concert) and leading discussions on theater, films, jazz and the relation of music to society ("Do we really need or want" the concert hall...
...concerned, progress was here to stay. Eddie Rickenbacker predicted that within 25 years autos would be outmoded and airplanes would take over the transportation business. Juniors smiled and went home for the Christmas vacation and a whirl of parties. Some of the more adventurous looked with envy on the expedition that was leaving for Yucatan or listened wide eyed to accounts of the Mountaineering Club's attempts to climb Everest...
...time for a dozen years, while V-2-type careers were exploding all around her. She was singing before she could talk properly, back in Jamestown, N.Dak., where she was born Norma Egstrom 32 years ago. Eventually, she got up the nerve to give Hollywood a teen-age whirl, got a singing job at $2 a night, but soon landed back home with an overstrained throat that required five operations. After that, she had to learn to sing softly...
...many do, he made his way through the academic whirl, studying while waiting his turn, reading notes when the repair man came, discussing lectures while someone got change...
...little but an island, a parrot, a goat, a musket and a Man Friday. The "science-fiction" writer, busy working the unknown nowadays, requires planets, galaxies, universes and all the latest portents of physics. He sets out, as Defoe did, to make the reader's imagination whirl with mingled curiosity and alarm; but where Defoe found novelty in a human footstep, the science-fictioneer stakes everything on such inhuman images as "a six-foot egg made of greenish gelatin" or "nine feet of slimy green trunk tapering ... to a pointed top." Where Defoe laid down his ideas...