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...streamlined Cleveland Orchestra as background, gave the new concerto its first performance. Well-woven as a Paisley shawl, Composer Walton's opus proved warm as well as intricate. And though Cleveland's dowagers found its texture scratchier than crepe, Cleveland's critics fingered its solid warp & woof with enthusiasm. Said Clevelander Rodzinski, rolling a long cigaret of Polish tobacco after the concert: "This is one of the most important violin works of the century. Emphatically so!" Echoed Violinist Heifetz: "I'm very crazy about...
...pronounced like W; W is pronounced like V or F; CZ like SH; SZ as in the word "azure." Poles also frequently half tick off an extra consonant or two that is hitched in front of many words, and pronounce OW at the end of words as in "woof-woof...
This week in a startling book, Medicine At the Crossroads,† with a warp of drastic criticism and a moderate woof of diplomacy, Dr. Bernheim ripped into the medical profession. Considering himself a "terrible old reactionary," he offered plans for medicine's modernization. Among his suggestions...
...humor. The most power-crazy and pitiless of all the iron-chewers, Stalin, has taken time off from purging to marry twice and beget a daughter,* still in her teens, but if his love for her has made him go down on his hands and knees and say "Woof, woof!", we are not getting the straight dope from Russia these days...
...extended further credit against Chinese gold held in the U. S. (see p. 16). These gestures, called "dangerous, regrettable acts" in Tokyo, made Japanese and U. S. business interests seem more than ever at cross purposes last week. Yet there was one notable spot of conciliation in this warp & woof of imperialism: Wreathed in smiles, Japanese and U. S. cotton textile men renewed their unique, two-year-old private trade pact...