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Cocktail Houri. Bobbing and weaving about the premises are a passel of New York glitterati. There is a highbrow editor of a popular magazine who is keen on starting a new literary journal and wants Tom to round up a staff of "topnotchers" and decorated veterans from the little magazine wars ("You did publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross...
...meetings of composers were brought about by the fullest fortnight of modern music Manhattan has ever heard. Chief instigators were the Juilliard School of Music, which commissioned 32 U.S. composers for its 50th anniversary celebration, and New York City's highbrow station WNYC, which stages an annual American Music Festival between Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays. With a handful of other outfits also producing 20th century music, there were no fewer than 236 compositions by 149 U.S. composers, as well as a few imports. Last week's standouts...
...Rictus of Terror. In the decade following World War I, Alabama-born William March became wealthy as a vice president of the Waterman Steamship Corp. After Company K's brief success, he left business for full-time writing, without getting any highbrow attention. His work, in addition to Company K, is well represented in this omnibus, with a short version of another novel, October Island, twelve fables and 21 short stories...
What with hushing up the scandal, and the phony baby ploy, Blade finds that Adams is gaining ground. Still he needles his staff with the first law of gimmickry: "There ain't any highbrow in lowbrows, but there's some lowbrow in everybody." Where is the golden kazoo† that will pied-pipe the voters into the Adams camp? Before Election Day rolls around, Blade finds the kazoo and a tune to tootle...
...inadvertently, Author Ives gives a clue to her brother's political personality. Despite the devotion he inspires in those near him, the book once more conveys his unhappy faculty of creating distrust in the common man he seeks to champion. The cause is, perhaps, less his often-criticized highbrow manner than a certain remoteness springing from that remarkably sheltered and unruffled life. It was a life that appears today somehow divorced from a reality larger than family, Illinois or Princeton...