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...Sever Hall with Uzbek Studies 229. It was ghastly--so ghastly I cannot talk about it. The obscene rites that there transpired, as registered on my fear-crazed brain by my blear-hazed eyes have completed the utter rout of my resources, made me the shattered hulk you now behold, and driven me back to my couch...
Threni opens with the chorus singing mournfully over the sighing orchestra, gradually builds to a moving tenor solo, accompanied by the Flügelhorn, to the text, "Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress." In one passage of labyrinthine difficulty the two tenors and two basses sing two separate canons simultaneously. Except for the second section of the third elegy, the tempo is funereal, and throughout the mood is unrelievedly austere. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the piece is that despite the rigidities of the tone-row technique (and for the first time Stravinsky used all twelve tones...
...Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Scholars have given St. John's symbols of strife and destruction various names, though the sixth chapter of Revelations, through which they ride, names only one-Death ("and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him''). The current issue of Saturday Review presents a new theory by an old student. His name: Herbert Hoover...
...Murphy knows the diplomatic rule book as well as anyone alive-and his professionalism tells him the proper time to throw it away. He can be a charming, top-hatted and white-gloved diplomat-or a deadly antagonist. Says an admiring British Commonwealth diplomat: "He is a joy to behold in action. I have never seen any man who could sit at a conference table and smile and nod and rub his hands-and, when the occasion demands, be so coldly vicious." Thus, in Lebanon last fortnight, when Nasserite Rebel Leader Saeb Salam threatened to pitch U.S. marines into...
...strikingly handsome that an army chaplain called him "beautiful to behold"; yet historians of the Reconstruction era have dubbed him "the outstanding figure in filth." He was cited for gallantry at Shiloh-and lived to be reviled as "Prince of Bummers." He was a devoted family man, and yet spent much of his time with another man's wife. Some $16 million in bonds, three mansions, a railroad, and countless acres of timberland passed through his hands; but the day came when he was jailed for skipping out on a $94 hotel bill. This contradictory, little-known figure...