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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: SYMPHONY NO. 6, THE LARK ASCENDING (Angel). Because it was completed in 1947, this brilliant, troubling work is usually thought to be about World War II. The composer denied it, but the first three movements make up a harrowing musical storm that subsides at last into a serene speculation for strings inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." The Lark Ascending is a delicate, attenuated tone poem for violin, played by Hugh Bean with proper lyricism. Conducting the New Philharmonia...
ALDOUS HUXLEY, by John Atkins; THE HUXLEYS, by Ronald W. Clark. Human being or controlled experiment? Guru or walking encyclopaedia? The often contradictory legend left by this brilliant member of a renowned intellectual family is examined by two biographers who almost find the missing link...
Zapping a Toothpick. That incident, too recent for inclusion in this hastily updated book, nevertheless echoes the theme: the Administration's attempts to arrive at a formula for peace have been less than brilliant and often self-defeating. The President of the U.S. has spent an extraordinary amount of time poring over reconnaissance photographs, trying to decide whether a toothpick bridge can be zapped without damage to nearby tenement hovels. But for all this attention to minutiae, he has been unable to exercise control at some crucial moments...
...earthy, plain-spoken businessman who has lived in Chicago all his adult life, Johnson, 50, is less the brilliant innovator than a shrewd judge of the Negro community. He has been careful not to get too far ahead of the times-or too far behind. He started Ebony, he said in his prospectus, "to emphasize the brighter side of Negro life and success." As the darker side has come more into view, Ebony has adjusted. Last winter, Senior Editor Lerone Bennett Jr. provoked considerable controversy and a stern rebuttal from the New York Times when he wrote an article debunking...
Flight. As Stephanie's guest, Stanley plunges into the brilliant intellectual and social haut monde in Salzburg for the music festival. He is a self-conscious blunderer, but the one thing he understands far better than his indifferent friends is the true nature of Hitler's mania. The Jew and Gentile gathered to hear Toscanini conduct Fidelia cling to the illusion that Austria is protected by some ineluctable immunity. But after watching his barber preen in his new National Socialist uniform, and after seeing the troopers take over the best restaurants, Stanley knows that he must...