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...Today 81 years after his death, detractors of Berlioz still scorn him as a crude noisemaker who marshaled whole regiments of instruments and singers to gain his fantastically emotional effects, although most of them will grudgingly admit that he contributed some new colors to the palette of orchestration. His fervent admirers, even those who are troubled at the ease with which he passes from the sublime to the banal, claim that Berlioz was one of the giants of the romantic period-a composer who caught the heart beat of Beethoven, and went on to develop his own huge and powerful...
Columbia University Professor Jacques Barzun is an earnest and erudite man who inclines with all his heart toward the second view. The result of his fervent admiration is a two-volume study, Berlioz and the Romantic Century (Little, Brown; $12.50), the most careful, comprehensive biography of a composer and his period since Ernest Newman's monumental four-volume Life of Richard Wagner...
Died. Agnes Smedley, 56, Missouri-born journalist, Daily Worker contributor, fervent propagandist for a Communist China (China Fights Back), free-lance foreign correspondent in Soviet-dominated lands; after long illness; in Oxford, England...
...Fervent geologists enjoy their work as much as their field work. It's theoretically possible to graduate with only five or six outdoors trips, but most majors like to hike over the Auburndale esker or spend an afternoon chopping tillite at Squantum Beach, and call it all schoolwork...
...little abashed and puzzled by all the furor, House members seemed to think that the amendments could probably be toned down a little. To that the New York Times sounded a fervent aye. Certainly everybody wanted Government agencies to pick people of sound character and good judgment. But taking a hard look at the whole problem of insuring security without bringing on sterility, the Times editorialized...