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Fogg Museum's "highbrow lot" have indicated partiality towards Van Leyden's "cool, subtle" Angel, according to the current issue of Time Magazine. The painting is the most recent entry in Time's long list of public favorites...
...toughest job a highbrow machinist can tackle is to make a diffraction grating. The end result does not look like much: just a piece of glass coated with a film of aluminum in which thousands of microscopic lines are ruled. But when light hits such a grating, it separates into a brilliant spectrum that is far more useful for most scientific purposes than the spectrum formed by prisms. The closer the lines, the more the spectrum tells about the light that hits it, so scientists are always demanding finer & finer gratings from the machinists...
This week Station Owners Bernie and Rita Jacobs announced that WFMT was operating in the black. Seven months ago they had run the station without help. Now there is a staff of six. Like Manhattan's cultural (and partly audience-sponsored) WABF, the Jacobs station is unabashedly highbrow: Debussy's St. Sebastien, Hindemith's Herodiade, the BBC recordings of The Canterbury Tales; Verdi's Macbeth. All works are played in their entirety and without interruption for commercials or station breaks. No work is repeated within three months...
Winding up its 27-concert season last week, Lewisohn had also proved that popular music is still popular, consistently drawing more listeners than highbrow events. The Kern-Hammerstein night played to 19,000. the Gershwin night to 18,500. The best draws (17,500) among the classical programs: 1) Contralto Marian Anderson; 2) the combination of Beethoven's music, the conducting of Pierre Monteux and the violin playing of Yehudi Menuhin...
Standard Model. In many ways Clark is a standard assembly-line model. U.S. generals are supposed to avoid such dreamy and imprecise stuff as highbrow art, music and books; Clark fishes and reads the Satevepost. Card games are okay; in the last two weeks Clark has had time for just one go at canasta with his wife (he won). U.S. generals are not supposed to get fat, lest they look bad in uniform; Clark is lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and rangy. When they are afoot, U.S. generals are expected to stride, not amble; Clark strides. In the European...