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...strings attached, as in Rossini's racy, unfailingly amusing Quartets for Woodwinds (Period). Many listeners have come to realize that even string works-Schubert's Death and the Maiden, Beethoven's last quartets-can be as poignant as any symphony. In some cases, record buyers have bitten hard at chamber music, e.g., the Westminster version of Schubert's lusciously Viennese "Trout" Quintet sold 100,000 copies in five years and is still going strong; the peppery, well-publicized Budapest String Quartet sells about 50,000 records a year (Columbia). Most significant shift in the wind...
...book a central defect and a number of gaping holes. The central defect is over-simplification. After due deliberation, he concludes that Huxley's books are too full of intellectual fireworks to make coherent points, that Greene gives an unrealistic prominence to suffering, that Hemingway is not so hard-bitten as he seems at first. These conclusions are all very sound, but none of them come as revelations...
...Bitten. Such excitement was merely the beginning. In the midst of the nip-and-tuck 1954 congressional campaign, Wilson remarked in Detroit, referring to laid-off auto workers: "I've always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself-you know, the one that will get out and hunt for his food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." This sent Democratic columnists, cartoonists, and labor leaders into paroxysms of protest. He addressd august congressional committeemen as "you men," dismissed a Capitol Hill boost in Air Force funds as "a phony." He called the Pentagon a "five...
Diamond Needle. In Detroit, Eugene W. Bader, 11, was awarded $250 in damages after he was bitten by a cocker spaniel during a sand-lot baseball game when a twelve-year-old girl, rooting for the other team, sicked her dog onto him as he was sprinting around the bases on his home-run smash...
...while, hard-bitten little Judge Davies was steering a carefully legal course and refusing to back water by so much as an inch. Clearing the way for possible future Government action against Faubus (see The Law), Davies ordered U.S. enforcement agencies to start collecting the facts behind Faubus' defiance. At a weekend hearing Davies flicked aside a new petition for delay by the Little Rock school authorities. Said he, coldly: "The testimony and arguments this morning were, in my judgment, as anemic as the petition itself ... In an organized society there can be nothing but ultimate confusion and chaos...