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...Neills collected $1,000 after their son was run over. Written in the same slow tempo as Farrell's earlier works, with characters who were fatuous when they were not brutal, it gave an even more dispiriting picture of a sodden, sullen, sick environment, revealed no new facet of either Farrell's talent or of the life of the neighborhood...
...spending was only one facet of the Eccles financial philosophy. To apply to public policy the common economic virtues of private life, he has often declared, is to invite disaster. When the nation's individuals are assiduously practicing thrift, economy and budget-balancing, that is precisely the time for the Government to go into debt for compensatory public spending. Of course, this was the underlying fiscal philosophy of the whole New Deal, and Mr. Eccles came to be rated the arch-apologist of spending. Last week Mr. Eccles suddenly reversed his economic field, to the shocked surprise...
Harpsichords. In Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium one night last week swart Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi turned on a little-known facet of his exuberant talent. A harpsichordist for 26 years who has studied with the most publicized exponent of that ancient instrument, Mme Wanda Landowska, he tinkled bravely through a Haydn concerto, conducting the orchestra on the side as all performers did in the harpsichord's heyday, the first half of the 18th Century...
...emerges: each of her books has been a landmark, although on many different courses, and each of them offers, along with her tract "How To Write," a sufficient support for its own art. Many individual pieces are partially meaningless to us; no one person has made his own every facet of her achievement. That their logic is architectoric rather than progressive may make critical formulae inadequate but cannot serve as a serious challenge to the work itself...
...Every facet of this problem of university education has been repeatedly examined under the searchlight of conflicting opinions, but an essential question is worth asking again. Is not the devotion to non-intellectual work for able men a short-sighted procedure, both for themselves and for the community...