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...Crawford piece, was in two movements, a scheme more composers might well experiment with. England unified each movement through consistent application of one device: the first movement, rather rhapsodic in character, exploited the ornament known as the inverted double mordent; the second, clearly structured, utilized a repeated-note pattern...
...payoff comes after a spider has settled down to a routine of high living and weaving perfect webs of traditional pattern. Dr. Bercel then gives it no food for a day. In the evening he offers it a doctored fly-one that he has killed without damaging its form and from which he has drained the blood. He replaces this with human blood serum taken from schizophrenic patients. Since the dead fly does not buzz or struggle, Dr. Bercel fools the spider into thinking that it is alive by twanging a tuning fork (middle C) near the web. The spider...
...produced the national headlines on labor racketeering, it was vigilant newsmen, from Des Moines to Portland, Ore. and back to Scranton, Pa., who sparked the Senate investigation and provided the scattered local fragments (TIME, June 4, et seq.) that fell into a nationwide kaleidoscope of corruption and violence. The pattern of partnership showed sharply this week as Senator John McClellan's men wound up their hearings on union terrorism in Scranton...
...Arthur Hays Sulzberger married Iphigene Ochs. only daughter of Adolph Simon Ochs, turned down his father's cotton business, went to work for the New York Times; in 1935 he succeeded the late great Adolph Ochs as president and publisher of the Times. Last week, in the same pattern, the tradition moved into another generation. Named the new president of the Times, succeeding Arthur Hays Sulzberger, was Orvil E. Dryfoos, 44, who married Sulzberger's daughter Marian in 1941, left his seat on the New York Stock Exchange to join the Times, became a vice president and director...
...experience is abnormal. This is the beginning of any art, but is also the beginning of madness. She does not make the usual associations, or think in the hackneyed categories, which means that she has it within her grasp to extend the reader's sensibility to a new pattern of perceptions...