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...Least a Million. Four times married, 76, and possessor of the $100 million Post Toasties fortune, Marjorie Merriweather Post May (as she is called for short) has long been a darling of Washington society, and long the angel of the orchestra. When Conductor Howard Mitchell suggested the free spring concerts eight years ago, Mrs. May excused herself from the board meeting, called her financial adviser and was back in a minute with the announcement that she would underwrite the concerts singlehanded. "I had just divorced the ambassador (onetime Ambassador to Moscow Joseph E. Davies)," she recalls blithely...
...ways a result of our phenomenally rapid transformation from relative obscurity to world leadership. "In every aspect of our national life we have been forced to re-enact in a specific drama the old pattern of humanity, for we have been driven from the garden of Eden and an angel with a flaming sword has barred our return...
Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor (Angel) features the late Francis Poulenc and Jacques Fevrier as the two pianists in Poulenc's familiar and joyously baroque double concerto. Concert Champétre for Harpsichord and Orchestra, on the other side, is not vintage Poulenc, though played with mercurial zeal by Harpsichordist Aimée van de Wiele...
Vivaldi: Gloria (Roger Wagner Chorale; Angel) is a rendition of Vivaldi at his festive best. The choir gets a bit thick at times, but the soloists are excellent and the recording is rich and sonorous...
Label of Relief. The Biblical Jacob who wrestled with an angel was trying to learn his name-in the belief that knowing something's name gives a man power over it. When a traditional writer tells exactly what motive a character has. he offers the reader the relief of a label that allows him to put aside his questions about the character and consider the subject-and the story-closed. By refusing to do this. Uwe Johnson makes the matter of Jakob's life a matter for continuing speculation. Jakob moves out of literature into reality-like...