Word: interrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hildegarde will interrupt her tour for a holiday stand next month at a Boston hotel. Her verdict to date: "There are no provinces any more...
...falling. The patter songs of Gilbert and Sullivan--composed of both speech and music--leave it undecided. "But when the words are subordinate to the music as they are in opera," according to Jones, "the device will not interrupt the singing...
Last week Pastor Benito, whose red brick church is filled each Sunday, was preparing to interrupt his 18-hour days of preaching, teaching and prayer to visit Majorca. "I have to go there," he said. "There are brothers out there who have not seen a pastor in years. I must go. But not on a mission, for we are not missionaries. The Spanish people do not need missionaries . . . they are . . . only a little misguided and confused. They need the Gospel. I will bring it to them...
...friendly salesman, of course, does not argue, does not sample the merchandise in the store, does not interrupt when the dealer says something, does not make remarks to women customers. He keeps his mind on the cooler (a subject which takes six hours of lectures and demonstrations alone), sees that it is properly stocked, and that the Coke is placed nearest the cooling unit...
...Interruptions, Please. The ideas behind these words, argues Adler, represent the most important questions that Western man has been asking since his civilization began. That civilization "is like a long continuing conversation in which Plato is talking to Copernicus and Copernicus is talking to Kant." With the Syntopicon (and Chicago's set of the Great Books), a reader will be able to put the conversation together, can interrupt it at any point, and follow any theme through as many centuries as he cares...