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...office of Brooklyn's Council of Jewish Women was unveiled the only death mask extant of ex-Chancellor Engelbert Dolifuss of ex-Austria, smuggled out of the country by Exile Gregor Sebba, who effectively disguised it by modeling over it a mask of Beethoven...
...Music has long been used in the psychiatric wards of Bellevue and Johns Hopkins Hospitals with remarkable, if temporary, success. Schubert's Ave Maria will quiet raging maniacs, claims Dr. Podolsky, and Beethoven's Egmont Overture has cheered many a victim of melancholia. A champion of pure music, Dr. Podolsky finds small medical virtue in swing, warns psychiatrists off Wagner "warhorses" and "severely intellectual modern music," urges them to add Chopin and Mozart to their musical pharmacopoeia...
...Beethoven, the Vagabond reflected, was a typical Harvard man. He had all the earmarks. In the first place, he was almost constantly in love. Arrogant and tactless, without any graces of appearance or manner, he nevertheless completely vanquished the Venetian belles. He spent fortunes on fashionable clothes, he took dancing lessons, he was often at court-in short, he got around; and one friend once said of him that he could make a conquest "very difficult if not impossible for an Adonis." But when he proposed to the beautiful Magdalena Willmann, she laughed and termed him ugly and half crazy...
...relaxation Elizabeth Bowen likes movies, music (swing as well as Beethoven), long walks, small, gay dinner parties. A poised and witty hostess, she knows many people, but her close friends are fellow writers: H. G. Wells, who lives nearby, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Rose Macaulay...
...Bartók's obscure modernisms, guffawed at Goodman's cackling clarinet, but applauded like fans at a cockfight. Soberer pundits grumbled that Bartók's score was a tricky jumble of Stravinskian boisterousness, sniffed that they preferred Szigeti's superb performances of Beethoven's A Minor Sonata and Bach's unaccompanied Chaconne...