Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 (the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 2 sides, LP). The Sixth illumines little of the musical method of Shostakovich that the Fifth did not highlight as well or better, and adds a little circusy trash at the end. Performance and recording: good...
...stirring Vietnamese rendition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . ."), the U.S. State Department this week got ready to launch a new kind of cold war against Communism in the Far East-propaganda by the comic-book method...
Kurth's fondest dream was to convert Southern yellow pine, not good for finished building purposes, into newsprint. Not until the mid-'30s when a method of controlling the pitch content in pine pulp was discovered, was he convinced that it could be done. Then he had to spend five years convincing other Texans. After Kurth raised $2,689,684, including more than $400,000 from 25 newspapers, RFC lent him $3,425,000. He had hardly started to make newsprint when the war cut off his supply of chemically made pulp. With additional private loans and another...
There is danger, also, that such a clause could be used as a restriction on the freedom of undergraduate groups. There is no question that discrimination is a bad thing; but against this particular method of combating it must be weighed the abridgement of freedom -- an abridgement which would set a precedent for the Council, or for University Hall, further to limit the membership, actions, or purposes of student groups. There are too many such regulations...
Both the white young boy who works to save an arrogant and stubborn Negro from a lynching, and the Negro himself, are obscure characters in the film, though they are most important ones. Many things in the movies compensate for the loss of Mr. Faulkner's method of storytelling, but to have been a thoroughly satisfactory piece of drama, the principal characters, particularly the boy, need more dimension...