Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about music than all the great composers and performers." What precisely is it that she knows? The woman who gave up her own early attempts at composition as "useless music" has not tried to shape a special musical style, stands first of all for intellect and discipline. In an age given to sprawling, undisciplined "self-expression," this has been a much needed corrective. Critics of Teacher Boulanger nonetheless wonder what the work of many contemporary composers might have sounded like without the apron strings of her cool, brainy, French-intellectual influence. But, says Nadia Boulanger sternly: "Great art likes chains...
...world's greatest conversationalist, playwright (The Enchanted Trousers), poet (Wild Apples, Selected Poems), author (as I Was Going Down Sackville Street, Going Native), surgeon (eye, ear, nose, throat), sometime athlete (bicycle sprints), who was dubbed by William Butler Yeats "one of the great lyric poets of our age"; in Manhattan. A onetime senator of the Irish Free State (1922-36), he loved to badger Republicans ("Whenever De Valera contradicts himself, he's right"). Characterizing an Irishman as one "who believes best what he knows to be untrue," Gogarty often colored his tall tales with even taller reminiscences...
...Even harder fighting will be required to make the law effective. Hollister's successor at the ICA, James Smith, 47, onetime Pan American World Airways vice president, is well aware of the problems ahead-and the objectives. Said he: "We must undertake to help other countries become of age and attain economic growth. And by help I do not mean giveaways. I mean that same kind of sensible, useful help that you would give to a new enterprise in your own community...
When Bishop Latimer was about to burn at the stake for his Protestant loyalties (during the reign of Catholic "Bloody Mary" Tudor), he not only spoke one of history's most famous lines but defined an age: "We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as shall never be put out." The Reformation was an age of flame, lit both by candles and by faggots, by holiness and horror. Materialist-minded historians have no trouble tracing economic pressures and class struggles in the Reformation, yet it remains above all a conflict...
...would never have happened had not "intolerant" men been willing to die (or kill) for their beliefs. Yet this somewhat anticlimactic touch of gentle rationalism does not diminish the excellence of Author Durant's work, and in a way perhaps foreshadows the subject of his next volume, The Age of Reason, to be published in five years-if, as Durant puts it, "the Reaper will stay his hand...