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Like life itself, it is a succession of ten sion and relaxation . . . whereas atonal music offers no relaxation. In atonal music we find tensions ... an infinite mobility ... a deep disquietude . . . The listener is seized for a moment, but afterward he wonders what he has really heard." Then why have composers been writing atonal music for 40 years? And why do they keep on writing it? Furtwängler: "It cannot be denied that modern man finds in this music an echo of his own feelings . . . Atonal music expresses something of the enigmatic times in which we live." What will...
...Times has never had much luck with its Moscow correspondents. Walter Duranty . . . waxed rhapsodic over the Soviet 'experiment' throughout the 1920s and much of the 1930s ... The 'Times man' in Moscow from 1941 to 1943, Ralph Parker, turned up shortly afterward as correspondent for both the London and New York [Communist] Daily Workers, leaving a trail of glowing red faces behind...
...days of the last war. The least pleasing bit of fiction is "The Accident" by a young Texas writer called Terry Southern. An excerpt from a novel, it is well-told and at times exciting, but it lacks orientation; one wants to know what came previously and what comes afterward...
...commercial airline. The colonel last year sold his converted B-17 Flying Fortress in the canny belief it had worn out, had his judgment confirmed when it crashed shortly afterward...
...running like a dry creek," warned the pro-Eisenhower Scripps-Howard newspapers one gloomy campaign day last August, but soon afterward came the flood tide that steadily carried Ike to victory in the election. In retrospect, the days of the dry creek defined Ike Eisenhower as a man who first sets his goals, then sits back disconcertingly until he has decided how to get there. Last week the Eisenhower Administration was in a similar dry-creek period, a painful interlude where the objectives were set but the Administration was getting nowhere. Items...