Word: writes
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...second, much better. Austin's piano music is an agglomeration of modal progressions, cast in big thick chords insensitively connected. There is nothing particularly cerebral in his style. Little is said. The same applies to the Canons. There-part canon at the unison or octave is difficult to write, since the harmonies during the imitations are somewhat limited to those implicit in the statements. The problem of gaining tonal variety is hardly met in Austin's canons; their only virtue is smooth voice writing...
TIME April 2 erred in stating [Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster] made Marty because we "needed a flop to write off as a tax loss." Indeed, had Marty failed, we'd have had nothing to write it off against, because it was optimistically made by a specially organized Marty partnership, which owned no other properties...
Meanwhile, Truman sailed eastward for a seven-week visit to Europe (during which he will write a series of columns for Hearst's King Features Syndicate). Honest Ave Harriman got ready to swing west on a dozen-stop speechmaking tour through seven states. Warming up before he took off, Harriman stepped before the convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union in Atlantic City and created his own slogan to succeed "New Deal" and "Fair Deal." What the U.S. needs to move forward from the Roosevelt-Truman era, he said, is a program based on "New Vision...
...announced that after September 1960 it will drop its noncredit freshman course. Rhetoric 100. The course, aimed at teaching college students "the common decencies" of spelling and grammar, is being dropped to put pressure on high schools to produce graduates with at least an elementary knowledge of how to write. Said Rhetoric 100's Professor Charles W. Roberts: "Laboring to get 18-year-old men and women to tell the difference between 'their' and 'there' is not the proper business of higher education...
RADIATION INSURANCE, one of big problems in peacetime atomics, will be provided for industry by syndicate of 110 firms. Insurance companies have formed Nuclear Energy Liability Insurance Assn. to write up to $50 million coverage on a reactor, biggest ever given any industry, to pay possible damages from radiation...