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Just over four decades ago, Michael Apted was asked by Britain's Granada TV to help make a show that aimed to say something about the effect of the country's class system on a disparate group of little kids. It gathered a lot of attention, and seven years later...
A book filled with such inveterate egotists as the Carver clan ought not to be much fun. Yet A Summons to Memphis radiates tolerant good humor. For all of Phillip's flaws, he is a keen observer, witty monologist and an adept at anecdotes. He recalls, for example, the fate...
Voice from the Widely Bimps. When he isn't exploding all over the basketball court, Frank Keaney is a good-natured Irishman who saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18...
The Compos-A-Tune was invented by Louis Ruben, a round-faced, bespectacled citizen of Bayonne, N.J. A disciple of the late Joseph Schillinger, Manhattan musicologist who believed symphonies might someday be manufactured by machinery, Ruben based his gadget on an analysis of more than 1,000 popular tunes.
1,000 Songs. Great popular songs have some distinction of melody, harmony or rhythm. Most popular songs do not- they follow formulas ceaselessly repeated in Tin Pan Alley. So efficiently does the Compos-A-Tune present the Tin Pan Alley formulas that several professional songwriters are already using it as...