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...Yoga and the occult sciences of the Orient are neatly passed along in a hundred pages. This sense of condensation and over-simplification is furthered by the division of The Art of Loving into a section on the theory of love, and another on the practice of love. Fortunately Fromm has the good sense to say in his forward--"The reading of this book would be a disappointing experience for anyone who expects easy instruction in the art of loving...
Despite the halting starts, the volume gets off the ground in the first chapter, where Fromm presents his thesis that loving is an art, in a very professional sense. According to Fromm, like other arts loving requires knowledge and efforts, discipline and concentration. Having presented this extremely Teutonic theory of love, Fromm proceeds to indulge his pet concerns: Freud's ideas about sex, and social criticism...
Forced to Flee. When he set up his Fromm Music Foundation four years ago, Paul Fromm was nourishing an ambition as old as his student days in Germany. The son of a prosperous wine grower, he early became an enthusiastic supporter of contemporary German music, was on the point of establishing a music foundation in his homeland when he was forced to flee the country during Hitler's pogroms of 1938. In the U.S. he prospered quickly, set up his own wine-importing firm and bought into several other businesses. By 1952 he was ready to turn his attention...
...Fromm's plan was simple. Computing the profits from his various enterprises, he set aside enough to finance expansion and to support himself and his family in an unpretentious seven-room apartment ("We live well, but we are not country club"), gave all the rest (roughly $50,000 a year) to the Fromm Foundation. To help him select worthy recipients of his charities, Founder Fromm hired a permanent four-man reviewing staff of professional musicians* (supplemented by occasional guest experts), gave them complete autonomy to award grants to composers who might or might not be to his personal taste...
Saved from Grubbing. Paul Fromm's reward for his good works is the knowledge that he has saved many a first-rate composer from moneygrubbing. (On the theory that too much money can be as destructive as too little, he has also vowed never to expose his daughter to the temptations of a large inheritance.) He regards as one of his major triumphs the liberation of Composer Benjamin Lees (TIME, May 7) from the stress of film music writing. "If Ben kept it up, he would go to pieces musically," says Fromm. Last week's Tanglewood concert helped...