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More restrained and modest than his usual florid prose, MacArthur's Reminiscences does not add much new information to the innumerable volumes already written about him. It omits, in fact, MacArthur's nasty squabbles with Generals Pershing and Marshall, his truculent communiqués and press releases that so infuriated his superiors. Nor was MacArthur one for personal revelations; yet Reminiscences does give fascinating glimpses of the human side of MacArthur during his many hours of triumph and his many moments of despair...
...anti-hero champion of the ordinary life, whose plain decency is contrasted with the theatricality and contrived cruelties of everyone around him. The novel is an attack on the proud intellectualism of over-ratiocinative Jews (and others). "We love apocalypses too much," Herzog decides, "and crisis ethics and florid extremism with its thrilling language. Excuse me. I am a simple human being, more or less...
BACH: CANTATA NO. 51 (Decca). "Make a joyful noise unto God," sings Soprano Judith Raskin as she proceeds to do so, outshining a trumpet obbligato in a series of brilliant salvos. It is a virtuoso performance of some of Bach's most difficult and florid arias, and Thomas Dunn's Festival Orchestra of New York is almost too unobtrusive...
...similar decorations from many other countries. Yet he seldom wore a medal, and he could stand midst a troop of ribbon-festooned heroes and, by the jaunt of his corncob pipe or the tilt of his old but gold-glittering garrison cap, appear positively Olympian. His orations often seemed florid. Yet he could be succinct and moving when the occasion demanded. In early 1942, he was ordered to leave beleaguered Corregidor before it fell to the Japanese. "We go," he cried, "during the Ides of March." And that is when he went. "I shall return," he pledged on his arrival...
Goya never worried about that; he did 23 series in the new art when he was nearly 80. Daumier put lithography to use in mass communication, publishing 4,000 editions of his social satire. Toulouse-Lautrec, adding color, posted florid cancan girls on every street corner. But lithography seemed to many 20th century U.S. artists too much part of the mass world...