Word: abrahamisms
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...Hollywood musicomedy scores, turning out 80 pages of orchestration in a day. In Broadway's louder and sweeter days, there were as many as 22 Bennett shows playing in one season.While keeping the tin pan boiling, Bennett has written-under the name of Robert Russell Bennett-an Abraham Lincoln Symphony, an opera, Maria Malibran, the fountain-&-fireworks music of the late New York World's Fair, many another serious piece. Now he can play the like of them on Russell Bennett's Notebook...
...said Abraham Lincoln in a great emergency in 1864. In the great emergency that faced the U. S. people last week, it was clear that their Government had not yet become too strong for their liberties. But straws showed a rising gale, a growing disposition of men in and out of Government to question whether democracy could afford all its liberties, a disposition to uproot minorities whose views seemed to them subversive. Last week in New York City the uprooting began: school authorities started proceedings to dismiss teachers for being Communists...
...life, Gutzon Borglum was fascinated by bigness. His statue of Abraham Lincoln in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington was carved from the largest block of marble he could find. His Wars of America, in Newark, N. J., was at one time the largest bronze group in the U. S. Mount Rushmore was a big enough monolith to satisfy even Borglum. Said he: "There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves, something that relates us to God and to what is greatest in our evolving universe...
...breadth of sixteenth-century classicism. With a bare economy of notes, it builds up by means of polyphonic architecture to a climax of tremendous beauty, and with the final text "in pace," the souls of the righteous seem to float off into space and come eternally to rest in Abraham's bosom. The Lamentations of Jeremiah, an entirely different sort of thing, takes as its subject the Biblical account of the fall of Jerusalem, and achieves its effect of sustained grief by a certain pitched, calculated monotony. Now and then a sharper twist of phrase suggests the weeping and gnashing...
...star, whose personality has a great tendency to de-schmalz sentiment and de-rant rhetoric. Tens of thousands of fans know that Gary Cooper is 6 feet 2¾ inches tall, 175 pounds heavy, 40 years old, and that if he grew a beard he would look rather like Abraham Lincoln. To his friends he is "Coop." Though special tributes are often paid him where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as sometimes finds its way toward the ears of Clark Gable. Boyfriends and husbands watch him without defensive squirming. Had Coop been a longshoreman he might well...