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...lost in the Pacific since July 2, 1937. Mrs. Morgan's dreams: Earhart and Noonan are alive on a densely thicketed four-acre island; her hair "has grown long and waves in the breeze"; she cooks over a clay pot supported by part of her plane's framework, invariably asks Mrs. Morgan "to come closer and I'll explain everything." At that point, the dreams stop. Said Seer Morgan: "I was never particularly interested in Amelia Earhart...
...hesitations, and bridge-passage gaps of standard symphonic form, but allowing the composer to start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly to the peaks. Sibelius's symphonies, especially the last three, have an absolutely economy of notes. Yet within this seemingly small framework, and out of what seem the humblest thematic threads, they weave climaxes of epic dimensions...
...original radiation, coming from the lead-wire, was so slight that only nearby buildings could get the programs. Steel framework deflected the waves so that only radios with outside antennas could receive...
...framework of the story has evident possibilities, but they are distorted badly. American born Mrs. Rochester, with a past of glamorous marriages to English nobility, invades America on a lecture tour. When her cousin, newspaperman "Hank" Rogers, comes to interview her, the outcome is a bad case of romance, spiritual conversion, and propaganda jitters. Convinced that her charming presence is a menace to American neutrality, Rogers tries to make her give up lecturing, and instead almost becomes her next husband. His affair is unconvincing, and the audience is never sure whether Mr. Sheean has decided to write about romance...
...attack upon existing evils. Like any would-be reformer, he tears up the proffered plans for reorganization as inadequate. However, the importance of his criticism lies in his concentrated attack on the basic attitude of most contemporary students of society. Furthermore, while pressing the attack, he lays the framework for a new approach...