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...limits a man's right to earn a living. Said he: "After all the noise and detonations in this chamber about the right to vote, that right cannot compare with the right to work, because inherent in it is the right of survival." Nonsense, replied Tennessee Democrat Ross Bass: "The American worker is never led into a box or into a factory where he has to work. He has the free right of working there or of seeking employment elsewhere. He does not have to work in a given plant. He does not have to pay homage...
...dressed like a monk, and about fifty other girls surrounded her dressed like monks and witches and jesters and knights, and some were even dressed like girls. Down in the pit there were more girls, playing piano, flute and trumpet. Off in a corner, hiding behind a bass and a drum set, were the two lone boys in the production, vastly outnumbered and probably terrified. The Wellesley Junior Show, a combination of a female Hasty Pudding show and a summer camp skit, was going strong...
...music. "An F-sharp doesn't have to be considered in the mind; it scores a direct hit," Leonard Bernstein points out. "Think of King Lear in an opera. He'd be raging as no Lear could ever rage in a spoken play: in a great bass voice, with a frantic high G-flat, a howling chorus offstage, and 90 players helping...
...philosophy-that turntables had to be separated from speakers and amplifiers so that the tone arm was not shaken from its groove, that amplifiers had to be placed far away from everything because they generated so much heat, and that speakers had to be behemoths to produce a faithful bass. Recent technological developments have changed all that. Good record changers have so many springs and shock absorbers that they are virtually unaffected by vibration. By using transistors instead of tubes, manufacturers can cram the same amount of equipment into half the space and eliminate the heat problem altogether. Lastly...
...couple of rock tunes to order, and then, reading success in a lot of tea leaves, invited a movie photographer to film a documentary of their "inevitable" jumping to fame. The What Four: Lillian Pogan on lead guitar, Elizabeth Burke on drums, China Girard on rhythm guitar, and on bass guitar, Diane Hartford, wife of A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who invited the group down to the family's New Jersey estate, Melody Farm, to rehearse for their Soft Day's Night...