Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WRITERS ON THE LEFT (460 pp.)-Daniel Aaron-Harcourt, Brace & World...
...should be aware of just how, and to what extent, Communism in the 1920s and '305 managed to infiltrate U.S. society from labor unions to universities. Nine volumes have already appeared, covering Communist activities in churches, mass media and government. Six years ago, the fund commissioned Daniel Aaron, a professor of English at Smith College, to write a history of the time when the Communists were the bullies of U.S. literature...
...Hell's Kitchen have they been blown up till they look like taxicabs with wings? But in general he contrives with careful empathy to see the city as the heroine sees it, to suggest the horror in the eye of the beholder. What's more, Composer Aaron Copland has written some graceful background music, and the three principals do as well as anybody could with the script in hand. As to the script, Actress Dunnock has the last word in the last scene of the film. "What," she inquires in a blank confusion that her audience will wholly...
Anxious to rescue history from simple moral judgments, historians have been restoring the reputations of many a traditional villain. Richard III, Metternich, Aaron Burr have all been readmitted to civilized society and admired for their "realism." But no one (outside Germany) seemed to have thought of scrubbing up Hitler-until now. In The Origins of the Second World War, Oxford Historian A.J.P. Taylor finds excuses for Hitler and reasons to blame nearly everybody else...
...18th century: it might almost have been a concert led by Haydn at the court of the Esterhazys or a command performance by C.P.E. Bach for Frederick the Great. The assemblage of 153 guests was celebrated and varied. Not a single blue-ribbon American composer of serious music, from Aaron Copland to Alan Hovhannes, was missing from the guest list. The nation's leading conductors -Bernstein, Ormandy, Stokowski-were represented in white tie and tails, and all of the major music critics of New York and Washington were eagerly present. Said one: "The composers acted and talked like poor...