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...lexicon of the dust jacket, writers do not write novels any more; they write major novels. The phrase, once the reviewer's last cymbal crash before his closing chord of adjectives, has become a generic tag, like "short story" and "hot dog." Thus cold frankfurters are cold hot dogs, not cold dogs. Accepting the publishers' ploy, critics must now confront a new literary phenomenon: the insignificant major novel...
...square-mile piece of the balloon, running roughly from 43rd Street to 77th Street, collapsed, and for 4½ mad hours, Reddy Kilowatt was blacked out. Seated at a great church organ, the organist laid ten fingers down on a blasting Bachian chord-and lost it. At Vic Tanny's, dozens of reducers stared in blubbery relief as the complicated electrical contraptions halted their pummeling. At the Paramount Theater, where the projectors run on DC current but the sound on AC, Elvis Presley was silenced at last...
...possibilities of the medium, Alan Hovhaness' Tower Music did More than any other work, it had the stamp of a personal style. The loneliness of the Tower Music's themes and open fifths recalls the same composer's Mysterious Mountain. Unfortunately, it lacks the other's movement and contrasts: chord progressions march ponderously, and the melody must try awkwardly to mitigate the resulting heaviness. Nor did the performance help to contribute any motion or variation, although some nuance was apparent, especially in an oboe solo...
...boasts a lineage that goes back to England's Plantagenet kings (1154-1485) and a memory that goes back almost as far. Last week, when she opened an invitation from one Villiers David to a showing of his watercolors, the name struck a familiar chord. In a twinkling, Dame Edith recalled that 28 long years ago, the obscure artist wrote an obscure poem called "A Satiric Preface to a Film...
...head. Another carried an inflammatory sign: "We Want to Continue As We Have in the Past." Politely they asked the cops if they could march around the square, and politely they were told that this would be all right, as long as no one struck a law-breaking chord of Greensleeves or Foggy...