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Eliot himself, one of his play's harshest critics, has deplored its not fusing Greek story with modern one, its exalting "versification at the expense of plot and character." And all too often The Family Reunion seems remote just where it should be intense, seems to be abstraction without even the vividness of allegory. Bloodless, it fails to cut quite to the bone; it is only those inwardly dead in the play who ever seem outwardly alive...
...harshest criticism is for other Japanese businessmen who copy foreign goods without paying royalties. Says Matsushita: "Other nations also copy, but they pay; Japan virtually steals. My company buys foreign patents or negotiates technical tie-ups with foreign companies, but the government stares coldly and says: 'Matsushita, you are causing dollars to leave Japan.' Such outmoded ideas will not make Japan progress...
...Society to new members at the first initiation, the president referred to Porcellian as "well suited to receive diminutive swine, but not that portion of the human race who think they possess a soul"; Pi Eta lacked "even a standard of admission, much less one of conduct." But the harshest words of censure were reserved for the arch-enemy...
Schoenberg's music, at times hideously difficult, underscores the contrast: it is at its sweetest and most melodic in Act II when the people of Israel prostrate themselves before the Calf, at its harshest when Moses struggles with his hard faith. In the arguments of Moses and Aron, the brasses snarl, the chiseled strings shriek in a web of complicated polyphony. The score is made more difficult by Schoenberg's technique of interlocking choral and solo parts in an almost unintelligible cacophony. The Columbia recording (conducted by Germany's Hans Rosbaud) demonstrates that Composer Schoenberg may have...
...clear to me that some action will have to be taken against those men." He refused to tell the News the names to the suspected players, but said that he "won't hesitate to throw the book at them. Anyone who would commit such an outrage certainly deserves the harshest treatment," he explained...