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...comforting father figure. To Aron, God is joy, to Moses He is awe. Moses' anguished faith can admit only of a God who is "omnipresent, unperceived and inconceivable.'' Aron seeks only "a vision of highest fantasy" and his quest leads to the abomination of the Golden Calf...
Schoenberg's music, at times hideously difficult, underscores the contrast: it is at its sweetest and most melodic in Act II when the people of Israel prostrate themselves before the Calf, at its harshest when Moses struggles with his hard faith. In the arguments of Moses and Aron, the brasses snarl, the chiseled strings shriek in a web of complicated polyphony. The score is made more difficult by Schoenberg's technique of interlocking choral and solo parts in an almost unintelligible cacophony. The Columbia recording (conducted by Germany's Hans Rosbaud) demonstrates that Composer Schoenberg may have...
...their capabilities and upset the dope. Ed Martin, figured for fifth in the mile, but expected to finish higher, is out with a damaged Achilles tendon, and Dyke Benjamin, in the same category in the two mile, has pulled his gastrocnemic muscle, that large, practically invulnerable muscle of the calf, and this will keep him out of action...
...head of Brahmas, Santa Gertrudis, Herefords and Aberdeen-Anguses were so weakened by malnutrition and weeks of slushing around in soggy pastures that cattlemen feared deaths would reach 270,000. Deaths already had decimated Collier County's 25,000 herd, and the area's spring calf crop was expected to be only 10 to 15 liveborn calves per 100 cows, v. 75 in normal years. A pilot who flew over the ranch area said he saw dead and dying cattle "in every direction. It is a field day for the buzzards...
...According to Webster's: "After S. A. Maverick (1803-70), a Texas cattle owner who did not brand his calves, 1) An unbranded animal, esp. a motherless calf; 2) a refractory individual who bolts his group and initiates an independent course." Garner's own definition: "A sort of freewheeling slick...