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...highbrow little magazines, life is seldom easy, frequently short. Editor Cyril Connolly bitterly put an end to Britain's Horizon after trying for ten years to make ends meet. In the U.S., the monthly Partisan Review has been forced to cut down to six issues a year, is still constantly casting about for angels. Since they traditionally operate in the red, only the little magazines backed by universities, well-heeled nonprofit organizations or foundations have any security. This week in London, 10,000 copies of a brand-new little magazine rolled off the presses, and it not only...
...could successfully have written The Doctor and the Devils, the screenplay for a new British film.* Published as a book, his script combines some of the best virtues of fiction and drama. What is just as important, Poet Thomas remains a poet while doing a job that most highbrow poets would pooh-pooh, unless it were offered to them...
Stories in the Modern Manner. A soft-cover collection of 14 hard-shelled short stories, by such highbrow authors as Alberto Moravia and Marcel Aymé. Good and reasonably clean fun (TIME...
Their orchestration is highbrow, including a lot of counterpoint, but every Sauter-Finegan arrangement has either a palpable atmosphere or a clear story line or both, without ever tripping over its danceable rhythm. With the precision of a Marine parade and the grace of a lace handkerchief waving on the sidelines, the big band runs through a notably moist version of Rain, a playful Midnight Sleighride, a dreamy April in Paris. Jazz-wise listeners only had an occasional sense of too much novelty for its own sake...
Stories in the Modern Manner. A soft-cover collection of 14 hard-shelled short stories, by such highbrow authors as Alberto Moravia and Marcel Aymé. Good, and reasonably clean, fun (TIME...