Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Mozart was one of music's most fastidious craftsmen, the deep human and emotional qualities of his music have often been overlooked. This week the noted English Critic Walter James Turner publishes a critical biography of him.* With a hitherto untranslated collection of letters to draw upon, Author Turner shows Mozart to be a lusty, even ribald character, with a stout heart, a lively sympathy for his fellow man-and woman. Reminding his readers that Mozart's generation was also Goethe's and William Blake's, that its spirit was in fact romantic and revolutionary...
...story. The book is Jules Remains' Death Of A World, containing the 13th and 14th volumes of his multiple-volumed Men Of Good Will, a vast, panoramic affair including several hundred characters, laid largely in pre-War France, and now totaling 3,756 pages. Five years ago, when Author Remains published his first volume and boldly announced the scope and complexity of his project (hinting that it might run to 25 volumes), some 11,000 U. S. readers bought copies. Thereafter sales settled so solidly to 5,000 copies for each installment that it was plain Author Romains...
...Death Of A World, the faithful 5,000 get two installments somewhat above Author Romains' average. Men Of Good Will is not a straightforward narrative embracing many characters and telling a consecutive story. Its hero is modern society as a whole, so that characters are introduced who seem to have no connection with each other, drop out of sight and reappear according to no apparent plan. The first volume, beginning in Paris in 1908, introduced Quinette, a murderer, Gurau, a radical deputy, Wazemmes, a sign painter's apprentice; their stories, appearing in alternate chapters, seemed to be related...
Solider-looking of the two was Old Haven, a 559-page novel laid in a small fishing village on the North Sea. Despite its wholly Dutch characters and background, it is only semi-Dutch. Author Dejong, a slight, redheaded, 33-year-old ex-bank clerk, soda-jerker, gravedigger and onetime student at five U. S. universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk...
...from Harvard in the Class of 1906, whence he studied in Europe. He joined the Harvard faculty almost immediately on his return, became a professor of Government in 1920. He has always had a close association with actual government, having served on numerous Federal and State commissions. A busy author, his favorite, flavor is Party and State Government. But in spite of all his activities and five children, he still manifests his great personal interest in his students...