Word: forms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...moment the big question is how good are the new, Victor LPs. Classical record buyers have already demonstrated their preference for the LP form with its uninterrupted music. They have been looking forward to having Victor's catalogue of famous artists in this form...
...between the 15's and 33's. The LP factor makes the latter much better for classical music while the former is obviously better for single records. Victor hopes eventually to persuade the single-record buying public from the old 78's to the company's favored 45 rpm form...
...threads snipped out of the ancient tangle of folklore. Myths and popular legends are full of catastrophes. Many ancient peoples, for instance, lived in fertile river valleys. They suffered from floods, and were apt to magnify big ones into widespread deluges. They usually worshiped the sun in some form, and were therefore apt to spin myths about times when their god or gods' behaved oddly. Velikovsky makes a large collection of these catastrophe myths and insists that they refer to the visits of the Venus-comet...
...wall scene, once more its spirit and execution have been judged everywhere simply candid. May I recall that noble religious town of Brussels, Belgium, emblem is boy in said circumstances whose statue stands in one of its squares." Taking up the argument, Burstyn charged "a subtle form of sabotage." He pointed out that the cuts demanded by Breen would entail gouging hundreds of more feet out of the picture to have its continuity make sense...
Adonis & Hercules. Although Pigs waddles rapidly through world porcine history in a hurry to concentrate on U.S. hogs, it nevertheless roots up enough factual truffles along the way to qualify for its ambitious title. The pig, "the most primitive form of domestic mammal that exists today," is 39 million years older than million-year-old man. Boars charge about wildly through ancient mythology; one of them killed handsome Adonis, another was captured alive after a mighty struggle with hefty Hercules. About 5,000 years ago, the Chinese were already eating domestic swine, along with dogs and fowl. When France...