Word: arnolds
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AMERICA AND THE WORLD REVOLUTION (231 pp.)-Arnold J. Toynbee- Oxford...
Wash-and-Wear Ulysses. The Ulysses of this uneven Odyssey is Professor Arnold Soby, a burnt-out romantic case (his young wife had died years before) with little left but his literary allusions. Encrusted with irony, hobbled by a pedagogue's inability to face life except in terms of art, Soby nevertheless fancies himself a secret worshiper of the wisdom of the body-for him symbolized by the bacchic visions that lured Gustav Aschenbach, the aging hero of Thomas Mann's famous novella, Death in Venice, to a debasing but idyllic passion for a beautiful young...
Master Plan. The argument revolves partly around the "finality" of Mahler's last draft. Composer Arnold Schoenberg, who was asked by Mahler's widow to complete the symphony shortly after a facsimile edition of the manuscript was published in 1924, decided not to undertake the job. "What his Tenth was to say," wrote Schoenberg, "we shall never know. It seems that the Ninth is the limit." Bruno Walter and other Mahler experts agreed...
Divorced. Arnold Eric Sevareid, 49, quick-witted CBS news analyst and liberal New York Post columnist; by Lois Finger Sevareid, 51; on grounds of desertion, after nearly 28 years of marriage, two children; in Washington...
...caricature of Hollywood, part Fitzgerald making faces at the mirror. Hobby, who once drew $2,500 a week, now connives to get past the studio gatekeeper; Fitzgerald, who once could finance a summer at Juan-les-Pins with a weekend of woodshedding, was reduced to begging Esquire Magazine Editor Arnold Gingrich: "The address is the Bank of America, Culver City, and I wish you'd wire the money if you like this story. Notice that this is pretty near twenty-eight hundred words long...