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Billows of acrid smoke pouring from the "triangular slice of Gothic whimsey" on Mount Auburn Street, more commonly known as "the Lampoon's architectural miscarriage" nauseated passers-by and unfortunate residents of Adams House late last night...
...made. By pointed inference, equally harsh criticism was directed at 1) most of the Army's ranking officers, and 2) the usual standards for judging those officers. Author of this indictment was Lieut. Colonel Thomas Raphael Phillips, a Coast Artilleryman who has long had a name for his acrid, authoritative writings in military journals. In the sprightly, unofficial but respected Infantry Journal, Colonel Phillips aimed a steel-jacketed burst at his brother officers and superiors. His essay (Traditionalism and Military Defeat) was also a chilling message to the whole U. S. Excerpts...
London has seen it this bad only once since the Great Fire of 1666-month ago when the first great incendiary raid burned out blocks of the City, made night day and framed the dome of historic St. Paul's in a thick drapery of acrid smoke. Since then London has learned how to deal with the blazeblitz. The secret is to douse each bomb within a minute or two. The entire male civilian population between 16 and 60 has been conscripted for fire fighting. When the incendiaries fall, crackling into blue and rose-colored flares, crowds of householders...
...three made the recording last spring. The Contrasts: a blue Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance), a slow Piheno (Relaxation), an intricate Sebes (Fast Dance), in which Szigeti alternates between two fiddles, one purposely mistuned, and Goodman between A and B-flat clarinets. Composer Bartok stirs up an acrid dressing for his Hungarian tunes, but languid modern palates may like the dish...
...Schuster editorial scheme was to concentrate on letters that reflect "the great personalities, the great events, the great ideas of history." The anthology opens with the somewhat acrid correspondence of Alexander the Great and Darius III (circa 334 B.C.), closes with Thomas Mann's warning to his age. St. Paul counsels the quarrelsome Corinthians ("the greatest of these is charity"). The Younger Pliny is baffled by the early Christians ("if they persevered, I ordered them to be executed"). St. Jerome eyewitnesses the Barbarian sack of Rome ("the wolves of the North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects...