Word: haydn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME IS NOON (561 pp.)-Hiram Haydn-Crown...
Crown Publishers' chick (first printing: 30,000) has been promised front-page cockalorums in the Sunday review sections of the Chicago Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hiram Haydn, the proud father, who edits the Phi Beta Kappa quarterly, The American Scholar, is going to throw an "autograph-party" for his chick in his home town (Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best...
Pass Me That Gin, Son. What is there about these two birds that makes them so much more precious than the average broiler? Well, Father Haydn's chick is absolutely enormous and interminably long-and the public loves to get good poundage for its money. It is primarily what is called a think-chick, and its little crop is crammed with quotations from Walter Pater, W. H. Auden, Machiavelli, Engels, and even Max Lerner...
...assaults in the grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike, antiSemitism, neurosis, a punch-drunk stockmarket and other cultural menaces. And so, at long last, a strong moral message ("Destructive violence must be fought-with constructive aggressiveness") soars across Father Haydn's sky like a flaming cliche...
...disadvantage. Only Music 1 and one other course are available every year for any but semi-professional musicians-i.e., those who have not had any theory and do not play an instrument. The other non-concentrators' course varies from "The Symphony" to "Chamber Music from Haydn to Brahms," but only one is offered each year...