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...last movement he arrives at the end four measures ahead of the orchestra. The audience roars its affection for the impatient pianist; it is the beginning of a lifelong affair. Even the crusty Beecham cracks a smile. Paderewski calls Horowitz the best of the younger generation. Rachmaninoff and Ravel applaud...
...applaud David O. Merrick's stand on critics [March 25]. For years I have fought a one-man battle against these freeloading character assassins, though they have generally been good to me. It has always been a mystery to me why of all man's endeavors, only the creative arts should be constantly exposed to public and generally destructive criticism...
...Durable Blackball. Critics of fraternities contend that they are anachronistic because today's college students tend to be serious about scholarship, scoff at any pretentions to status, consider secret rituals something for Klans or kids, resist togetherness, applaud all moves toward individual equality. Despite official pressure against racial discrimination, the blackball system, which forfeits membership control to the most prejudiced among a chapter's members, still keeps most fraternities segregated. In the 42,000-enrollment at the University of Minnesota, not a single Negro belongs to any fraternity except all-Negro Alpha Phi Alpha. There are no Negro...
...Lady Bracknell, Emily Levine cavorts in a high, aristocratic drawl. She is so consistently funny that the audience begins to laugh before she has done anything, and they applaud deliriously at the end of the first scene. But she is one stage too much of the time to act like a five-minute walk-on. Never is she completely brought into the play or even into her own role...
Horrors! Is TIME trying to start a new look in fashion by leaving the last button on its double-breasted blazer unbuttoned? I heartily applaud the resurgence of the Double-B style, but I feel obliged to point out that no Double-B man who is worth his brass would leave a button unbuttoned...