Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Batavia on the west to Surabaya on the east, Java's excellent highways were thick with armored cars, with the harnessed and ever-useful water buffalo, with pedestrian natives in economically cut trousers and casual skirts. At Bandung, the Army's mountain headquarters and fortress, patrolling aircraft droned in and away...
Died. Stefan Zweig, 60, Austrian-born novelist, biographer, essayist (Amok, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Marie Antoinette), and his wife, Elizabeth; by poison; in Petropolis, Brazil. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, Zweig turned from casual globe-trotting to literature after World War I, wrote prolifically, smoothly, successfully in many forms. His books banned by the Nazis, he fled to Britain in 1938 with the arrival of German troops, became a British subject in 1940, moved to the U.S. the same year, to Brazil the next. He was never outspoken against Naziism, believed artists and writers should be independent...
...music criticism in general. Few would deny that critics are a natural and necessary evil as long as people listen to music as a serious aesthetic experience, but what line should criticism take? It should be constructive, but not in a soupy, overtolerant way, nor yet in a casual "Well, what does it matter anyhow?" sort of way. The former type is represented in New York by such as Downes of the "Times" who is one of the best meaningless-phrase-makers in the business, and the latter by such as Simon of the "New Yorker" who writes...
...Mademoiselle," who has just begun a daily column in the Boston Herald, and finds time also to proclaim his disapprobation of popular idols in the swing world once a month in "Downbeat" and "Music and Rhythm." With all this, and an occasional short story, not to forget a casual stab at the great American novel, his creative urge has not been satisfied, and George has once more bloomed forth, this time with the lyrics to "Harvard Blues...
...ideas, puts enough complexity and contradiction into his characters to keep them from being stereotypes. It is like the creation of a culture pearl: an irritant is carefully introduced into the oyster, which then obediently builds up a globe of pearly substance, as smooth and gleaming to the casual glance as the real thing...