Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ferde Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). One of the maestro's favorites, much to the consternation of highbrows who wish he wouldn't bother. He gives it the works. Performance: excellent...
...Beckmann sometimes talks like this-like a mystic or a philosopher, but his best ideas are wordless. They come from what he calls "the labor of the eyes." Says he: "If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible...
...upper-class members of Houses will be eligible to participate in the intramural contests if they have not won Varsity letters previously in the sports in which they wish to engage or are not on Varsity squads in those same sports. Men may participate whether on probation...
...only a trading-place for international deals. . . . That is all we deserve to have in the way of international agreement; it is all we really wish. If U.N. tried to become a true world government it would not last a week; it would be a government without the consent of the governed and as such would immediately be repudiated, by Americans as quickly as by any other group...
...main offices? "I'll just ignore them," said Cheng. "Fushun's Mayor Yung Ning Lou has instructed 22,000 Japanese workers not to take orders from the Russians, but only from me. In the future, the Russians may sit in their offices and drink tea, if they wish, but they may not give orders...