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Anyone who has spent time and money learning about jazz soon finds that even his best friends can't stand the music he has grown to love. They present to him a solid bulwark of misunderstanding that resists all his efforts to explain, much less convert. Generally this opposition resolves itself into two kinds. One kind says jazz is corny, out of date; you can't dance to it. The other kind says it's transient; you have to think to produce "great" music. The one has been blinded by tastes in popular music; the other has been blinded...
...answer both at once. You can't convert both with the same argument. Aim your argument at the classicist and the popular-addict will accuse you of being high-brow. Aim your argument at the popular-addict and the classicist says, "You still haven't convinced me." Soooo, you go over into a corner and mull and mull. Then someone asks you what you're doing, and you tell him you want to find out a way to convert people to liking jazz. Invariably...
Already many streets of the city no longer exist. Others are pitted with craters or full of crashed bombers. The Germans are trying to convert Stalingrad into an uninhabitable hell...
...study his plans and report back to Donald Nelson. These men-WPB Adviser Grover Loening, Producers Glenn L. Martin, Donald Wills Douglas, John K. Northrop-had not been impressed. They found that Kaiser had no engineers seriously at work on cargo planes, that he did not plan to convert his shipyards, that what he wanted was a Government-built plant where he could turn out a plane designed by the aircraft industry itself...
...coal furnaces if they get it in within 30-40 days. Consumers who wait until cold weather may find themselves worse off than oil furnace owners because then army ordnance shipments will be at a peak. Of 1,400,000 Eastern homes with oil furnaces, 700,000 can be converted easily to coal, but only 40,000 have been changed so far. The ration plan proposes that home owners who can convert furnaces but fail to do so shall get no extra ration...