Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since his introduction last July, the poetry-spouting crook now villainously co-starring in Chester Gould's comic strip. Dick Tracy, had been identified only by his surname: Ogden. Last week, however, Cartoonist Gould finally inked in the poet's full handle: Providence M. Ogden. In the city room of the Providence, R.I. Journal, there was as much indignation as amusement...
Brass and Percussion (Morton Gould and his Symphonic Band; Victor). Marches by Sousa, Goldman, E. E. Bagley and Conductor Gould pit piccolo against bassoon, trumpet against drum, with the listener caught in between, as if trapped in a Fourth of July parade...
Beethoven: Wellington's Victory (Morton Gould and his Orchestra; Victor). A rare lapse of genius, the so-called "Battle Symphony," written in 1813 when the composer was at the height of his powers (he had just finished the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies), is a fascinating but vulgar and bombastic ode to Wellington's victory over Napoleon. Frankly composed to make money and originally intended for the panharmonicon, a sort of early stereo machine built by a German inventor in which nine different types of instruments were operated mechanically, the piece includes a rumbling God Save the King...
...Latin students. Arkansas has 69 Latin teachers, could use 32 more. In missile-minding Cheyenne, Wyo., sons of the Air Force's Atlas tenders are stoutly conjugating mittere ("to send"). But apparently, only a few youngsters mull over the ablative absolute out of sheer joy. Said Teacher Belle Gould of Henderson (Texas) High School last week: "Some of my students asked at mid-term if they could drop Latin and still come to this convention. I said...
...world, essentially, of the small New England town, the big New England town and, sometimes, New York. It was the world which James Gould Cozzens also made his own, of businessmen, bankers, lawyers, doctors, writers. Marquand had no sense that such professions were too mundane to provide human drama, although he chose to avoid the more violent forms of love, death and despair...