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...music was serious, passionately melodic, chronically chromatic and constantly shifting key. His motto was "Modulate." Once, listening to the improvisations of a bright young student named Claude Debussy, Franck cried, "Modulate, modulate!" Debussy replied: "Why should I when I am perfectly happy in this key?" and forthwith changed teachers. He enraged such enemies as Camille Saint-Saëns and baffled occasional defenders like Ambroise (Mignon) Thomas. Said Thomas: "How can you describe a symphony as in the key of D minor when the principal theme at the ninth bar goes into D flat, at the tenth C flat...
...writers of these letters should proceed forthwith to Loew's State, and find out for themselves what a really good war movie looks like. For "Battleground" combines a documentary's accuracy with the close-up look at individuals that no documentary can give. And it avoids the stereotyped action (boy meets girl and leaves her because duty calls, corporal hates sergeant because of prewar rivalry but repents when wounded) of "Sands of Iwo Jima...
...wanted to know1) how and with whom C.D.C. would spend the $5,000,000 and 2) what were the Colonial projects on which it would use the machinery. Though such full disclosure is a standard requirement for World Bank loans, C.D.C. Chairman Lord Trefgarne thought the requirement "too onerous," forthwith canceled the request for the loan. Said World Bank Chairman Eugene Black: "I think it is perfectly reasonable to request that, when we lend money to buy machinery, we get to see what they are going to do with...
...that. At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling, six-foot Student Laughlin in hand, introduced him to the work of such dedicated modern versifiers as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings. Laughlin, who until then had hardly cracked a book on his own account, burst forthwith into creative bloom, decided to bypass the steel business and devote his life to writing...
...with the children. His own five-year-old daughter, he reported indignantly, had come home in tears after hearing about Mother Goose's three blind mice who had run afoul of the farmer's wife, had their tails cut off by a carving knife. Geoffrey Hall decided forthwith to turn out some nicer rhymes...