Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This unhistorical observation serves well enough for a peg on which to hang another musical from the Zanuck cradle of history. Its pattern is familiar; the three principals rehearsed it almost to the letter in Tin Pan Alley (TIME, Dec. 9). But this time it curdles...
Tell Robert F. Kemper, who wrote of "thousands of fellows" in the April 14 issue of TIME, that not all of the union workmen are of the same pattern as the blatant minority...
...that time the invariable wartime economic pattern had gone far. Shortages had developed, competitive bidding by Government agencies and civilians had sent all prices into an almost vertical rise (see chart, p. /
...week long the Luftwaffe did some dark electioneering for Candidate Smith -by striking, night after shrieking night, at Britain's port towns. Candidate Smith's cause did not suffer by the fact that Birmingham was comparatively spared, that the pattern for the moment was a new and ominous one: Southampton, Portsmouth, Portland, Devonport (Plymouth), Milford Haven, Pembroke-all the stations and installations of Britain's most important weapon in Britain's most important battle...
...Nonetto" for chamber orchestra and chorus which follows is less successful, chiefly because having no formal pattern into which to throw his ideas, and imposing no mental limitations on himself, the composer dilates and drifts around to such an extent that the thing does not jell. It becomes more a series of stunning effects than a clearly discernible whole. Still, for what they are, the effects, caused by a varied and beautifully recorded percussion and passionate inter-jections from the chorus, are extremely striking. Also effective is "The Ox-Cart Driver's Song" for soprano and piano, sung by Elsic...