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Prediction & Reaction. According to Dr. Sheldon, a blend of "morphs" himself, people's temperaments are apt to fit their physiques.* Endomorphs are likely to be amiable and slow; mesomorphs, vigorous and aggressive; ectomorphs, inhibited and cautious. Further, he has found his types particularly susceptible to certain diseases, e.g., mesomorphs to acute appendicitis. Usually, says Sheldon, a person's physique can help indicate what sort of reaction he will have under stress, what sort of diet he needs, what sort of work he will excel...
Work Songs & Lullabies. After the war the four met at Greenwich Village get-togethers, soon decided that their voices, plus Pete's banjo and recorder, and Fred's guitar, made just the right blend. Sponsored by Red-tinged People's Songs, they got enthusiastic but unremunerative backing from fellow travelers who have long claimed folk songs as their particular province. Mostly, however, they kept up their singing "for the hell...
...Coca-Cola, cigarettes and convertible coupes. To catch his listeners' jaded ears, he mixed the flashiest symphonic devices of conservatory and concert hall with new electronic tricks picked up from radio engineers. With the help of a battery of microphones turned up or down for the proper blend ("We couldn't do it without the microphone"), Kostelanetz' music took on "sounds and sonorities that didn't exist before...
...just as infantry fighting has no plot. There is no special hero; Narrator Considine is just a member of one squad who Jived to tell the story. But there is tension, excitement and the imminence of death that needs no assist from tricks of fiction. The result is a blend as true as Bill Mauldin's best drawings and Ernie Pyle's best dispatches...
...Occasionally, as when he describes a duck shoot, his writing has flashes of its old, matchless exactness. However thin his story, he keeps it in motion and even invests it with a sense of potential explosion, though the explosion never comes off. The famed Hemingway style, once a poetic blend of tension and despair, is hardly more than a parody of itself. The love scenes are rather embarrassing than beautiful, the language of love forced and artificial. With his truculence, his defensive toughness, his juvenile arrogance, Hemingway's hero quickly becomes a bore who forfeits the reader...