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...program consists of Suite de Premier Ton by Louis-Nicolas. Clerambault; Sonata I by Paul Hindemith; Prelude and Fugue in A minor by S. J. Bach; Sonata III, Op. 65 by Felix Mendelssohn, and Concertante for Organ, Celesta, and Percussion by Daniel Pinkham. The latter number will be conducted by the composer...
...came to the faculty to become dean of Harvard Law School, and his two decades in the job (1916-36) were the school's golden age. Pound's combustible faculty ran a philosophical gamut from the conservatism of Edward H. ("Bull") Warren to the then liberalism of Felix Frankfurter...
Author Markfield's quartet of intellectuals revolves around the Little Magazines, to which they rarely contribute but wish they did. There is Felix Ottensteen, burly book reviewer for a Yiddish daily, who refers to himself as der Alte and browbeats his sullen son because he is still a student at 27 ("The way Catherine the Great took lovers, he takes courses"). There is Barnet Weiner, a fading poet-critic who remembers peevishly the time when his picture appeared on the dust jacket of New Critics, 1944. There is Holly Levine, who teaches creative writing but keeps a copy...
...candid. They have grown closer than they have ever been, and they may never meet again. Too many home truths have been blurted-the loftily literary Ottensteen, for instance, reveals that he also writes boilerplate for the magazine section of the Yiddish daily under the pen name N. J. Felix. Holly wearily confesses that nothing happens any longer when he writes down the magic words tradition, tragic, committed, alienation. "The word moral looked mean and angry, ailing on the page. And two weeks ago, with the best will, I was unable to pull it through. Dead!" Finally, the three turn...
...wedding for fear of lending impetus to Carlos' bid for the currently nonexistent Spanish throne. Nothing daunted, Carlos' family moved the ceremony from a chapel to a larger church to accommodate an expected 500 guests. But it looked like the royal top shots, including his uncle, Prince Felix, husband of Luxembourg's Grand Duchess, would be staying away...