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London's critics poured on superlatives. Said Art News and Review: "Astonishingly subtle. These are works of art in the fullest meaning of the word." Added the Manchester Guardian: "Remarkable . . . Much of it is powerful enough to make the most fervent admirer of Henry Moore pause a moment and ask if there is not something to be said for sculptors who have no intellectual pretensions . . ." One enthusiastic collector at the packed gallery offered $1,000 for a statuette of a seated Spearman...
...addition to his third opera, seventh symphony and a couple of film scores, Antheil has been busy recently on a violin concerto, piano sonatas and a string quartet. A few years ago he wrote his autobiography, Bad Boy of Music, in which he bade a fervent farewell to jangle, for a while even wrote a column of advice to the lovelorn for the Chicago Sun syndicate. But he has now given literature up, too. "It's silly for a composer to write a book," he says. "I'm just too busy to be sensational any more...
...fervent complaint of the late King George VI was attended to: the flattened, ironshod wheels of the Royal State Coach were rounded off and fitted with solid rubber tires. After his own coronation day ride in 1937, the King vowed that no heir of his should be subjected to a similar experience...
...trend in our American life that threatens the security of our institutions and causes us to fear for the future of our long-established liberties . . . We heartily commend efforts being made by legally constituted authority to apprehend the disloyal and bring them to account, but we express our fervent hope that the agencies thus employed will so revise their procedures that no person will be condemned by hearsay, and that every person will have full opportunity to refute all accusations in the face of his accusers...
...rhythmic banging of pop bottles. "Lastly! Lastly!" shouted delegates-meaning that the Senator should make his last point and sit down. Finally, he did. Magsaysay followed him and was brief. "I am a man of action," said he. "Therefore, I am not a speechmaker." Magsaysay sat down to a fervent ovation...