Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free him to marry her. When the mistress becomes pregnant, James resolves to divorce Annette, but face to face with the supine, trusting invalid, he holds his tongue. The memorable story evokes a morbid doll's house in which death is pink with black edges, like some outrageous hybrid flower. Also outstanding: the thumbnail sketch of the prim, man-hating aunt, who all but says out loud that a marriage in which sex is prohibited by doctor's orders is a noncon-summation devoutly to be wished...
When Belgian Instrument Maker Adolphe Sax stuck a reed into a conical brass tube and patented the hybrid in 1846, he contributed a new instrument to the military band. In time his saxophone traveled across the Atlantic, became a mainstay of jazz. But the saxophone has always had its strict classical disciples. Last week one of the best and most influential of them, France's Marcel Mule, made his U.S. debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and convincingly demonstrated just how good the serious alto sax can sound...
...scale, the average age of pop short-play customers has dropped steadily, is now computed to be around 13. That fact is enough to guarantee that along with the ballad there will always be the beat, whether it is rock 'n' roll or some such hybrid rockabilly or the new "rockahula"-Hawaiian rock 'n' roll. Beyond that, the industry is devoutly committed to the sentiments that Columbia's pop A & R (Artists and Repertory) Chief Mitch Miller once eloquently summarized as: "I love, you love, we all love, why do we love...
...Project Vanguard's birth, the Army and Navy jointly undertook a satellite project thought up by Engineer Wernher Von Braun, captured German V-2 expert turned U.S. Army missile brain. Von Braun planned to equip the Army's tested Redstone missile with booster rockets and use the hybrid to send a small (5 Ib.) satellite into an earth-girdling orbit...
This year the crop will be a whopper: 481 million bu., double last year's. One reason is a new hybrid seed; another is better irrigation. But the biggest is a wide loophole in the soil-bank law which permitted U.S. farmers to plant more acres in sorghum than ever before and collect price supports on much...