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...heaving harmonies, its breast-beating emotionalism, its air of Teutonic mysticism, Gurrelieder has no style of its own, is almost a parody of the musical philosophy that Richard Wagner imposed upon whole generations and that survived in the more grandiose visions of Strauss and Gustav Mahler. Nevertheless, the composition is well worth an occasional hearing, if only because it preserves in a curiously suspended state all of the conventions of romanticism. At the end, the chorus launches into a hymn to the returning sun, with its suggestion of resurrection. A musical resurrection was certainly on the way when the work...
Kennedy named J. Kenneth . Paul M. Warburg Professor of . Ambassador to India he noted economist has applied to university for a leave of absence. In of his nomination, Galbraith expects out the term." He stated that, is departure, Gustav F. Papaneck, on Economics, will teach...
...Leon Page of Coolidge, Ariz. My own flack had unfortunately broken down and the good doctor was kind enough to allow me to use his until mine was repaired. Dr. Page's flack is a much better one than my own, having been made in Leipzig by Gustav Schmidt, an old master flackmaker. Leipzig, as you know, was for years the flack center of the world...
...while his work was influenced deeply by the French impressionists, and by the patterned, mosaic-like paintings of Gustav Klimt, then the dean of Austrian art. Gradually Schiele evolved a somber style of his own-and he had few inhibitions about his subject matter. His pictures were roundly denounced as "the most disgusting things one has ever seen in Vienna." He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days-the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle. For years he wore hand-me-down suits...
Donald Arthur Glaser, 34, wore an evening waistcoat that was yellowed with age when he stepped up to receive his Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf early this month. The old vest, he explained, had been worn by two other Nobelmen, Edwin McMillan and Emilio Segre, before him, "and I guess I'll pass it along to somebody else for some future Nobel ceremony." Chances are, Glaser himself may some day want it back for just that reason. Having reached top rank in his field with his invention of a bubble chamber for photographing atomic...