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Poulenc: Mass in G (the Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 1 side LP). Composed in 1937, this Mass, austerely but tenderly reverent, is one of the best works that have yet come from Frenchman Francis Poulenc. Shaw's clean choral work is up to his usual high standard. On the other side: Benjamin Britten's graceful A Ceremony of Carols. Recording: excellent...
France has been the most determined opponent of a revival of German military power. Two invasions from the cast have been enough for any Frenchman, and the neighbor across the Rhine is still Germany, not Russia. But the French position has been modified since Korea, and France now professes herself willing to see Germans back in uniform...
More virtuous than Voltaire-he was the good man's Voltaire-Shaw was no more free than the Frenchman from the irresponsibility of a chaotically lucid mind which changed the focus too fast for his own eye. The age of Swift, to which Shaw historically and spiritually belonged, believed in authority; it believed that the moral was the practical; it was worldly, though without huge wealth; it believed in the beatitude of the conventional. It managed to believe in these things and at the same time to preach revolution in the name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Victorian practicality...
Like many another postwar Frenchman, Jean Paul David used to read his daily newspaper with skepticism, listen to his radio without confidence, and wonder with suspicion what the Communists were going to ask him to believe next. A husky, energetic Radical Socialist deputy, David resented Communist abuse of truth, decided to do something about...
...Paddy Young, he is going against Laurent Dauthuille for a maximum of ten rounds in the feature event at Madison Square Garden. Dauthuille is a 12 to 5 favorite, but my callments are with Paddy. I wish him luck, and commend to him the fact that Dauthuille, as a Frenchman, is also apt to got excited...