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...Musical World as "ranting hyperbole and excruciating cacophony." Tchaikovsky was assured by the Boston Evening Transcript that his new Fifth Symphony was "pandemonium, delerium tremens, raving, and above all, noise worse confounded." And Tchaikovsky himself was not above recording a terse opinion about Brahms: "That scoundrel . . . What a giftless bastard...
...acts the tropical tone of this issue with a two-stanza poem exalting the benefits of a hot climate. Although engagingly whimsical, it seems a rather mediocre attempt to imitate Ogden Nash. "Lines for Bloodshot Eyes" by H. S. Zeigler makes a neat observation on three-dimensional movies, "A bastard drama--Cinerama...
...authorities finally rid the territory of the bushranger. By then, Aussie folklore was solidly built around such romantic idols as Ned Kelly (it cost ?110,000 to capture him and his gang); Ben Hall (the bullet holes in his body reappeared, it was said, as birthmarks on his bastard son); Frank Gardiner, whom a sympathetic jury stubbornly refused to hang and who ended his days as a relatively peaceful San Francisco saloonkeeper...
...cult, L. (for Lafayette) Ron (for Ronald) Hubbard has whipped up the bastard word "Scientology," which he defines as "knowing about knowing" or "the science of knowledge." His latest ology is compounded of equal parts of science fiction, dianetics (with "auditing," "preclears" and engrams), and plain jabberwocky.* Hubbard has preached his gospel to the British; he spent last week drumming for converts in Philadelphia. Awed by his own accomplishments, Hubbard has awarded himself the degree of "D. Sen."-doctor of Scientology...
...resignation, charity, conformity to the divine will" and other virtues. Through the years, added the Tribune, the canonization of Columbus has been held up mostly because of the expense required for further historical research and the sneaking suspicion (not confirmed) that somewhere along the line, Explorer Columbus fathered a bastard...