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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At week's end, when San Antonio concertgoers got to hear Joseph, most agreed. First they heard broad phrases in full orchestra, then passages, with the simple serenity of Mozart, depicting the character of Joseph. Later, in the temptation by Potiphar's wife, the music became sensuously dissonant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Straightening Out Joseph | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

The new version, directed by documentary-minded Henry Hathaway (The House on 92nd Street), might have been a real humdinger in the same tradition. Unfortunately, it rarely gets much nearer to a real whale than a few tons of refrigerated blubber and some background footage of Pacific whales lazing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Sir Osbert Sitwell, the elder brother, (Sacheverell had been left in England) next came on stage, walking with the aid of a cane, and sat down at another microphone. (Mr. Weeks had explained that Sir Osbert had water-on-the-knee.) He was clad merely in tuxedo and looked very...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: An Evening With the Sitwells | 3/5/1949 | See Source »

Robert Nathan's "Portrait of Jenny" manages to express a complex idea in such simple terms that its artistic virtuosity is often overlooked. Nathan's main character is a timeless, ethereal creature, sometimes real and sometimes so strange that her reality seems dubious. She grows up at her own speed...

Author: By Donald P. Spence, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

That fall he went to Yale, where he rowed No. 7 on the frosh crew. Says Acheson, archly: "Those who row No. 7 say it is the most important place." He never put on enough weight to row on the varsity, but another old Groton boy and Yale oarsman, Averell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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