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...final story included is John Updike's "Wife-Wooing," a five-page hymn to love. While his predilections for cosmetics, hamburgers, and certain other American specialties seem out of place, his tone is beautifully consistent, his citing and borrowing from Ulysses indeed apt. Most important--and I suppose it's too bad for us--"Wife-Wooing" implies what is dally becoming more and more apparent: in a society which promises as much and fulfills as little as ours, one can honestly avoid hypocrisy only in meaningfully close personal ties
...Adams House Drama Society pushed every button, pulled every level, manipulated every winch and pulley that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...
...upon whole generations and that survived in the more grandiose visions of Strauss and Gustav Mahler. Nevertheless, the composition is well worth an occasional hearing, if only because it preserves in a curiously suspended state all of the conventions of romanticism. At the end, the chorus launches into a hymn to the returning sun, with its suggestion of resurrection. A musical resurrection was certainly on the way when the work was written, but even Composer Arnold Schoenberg did not know at the time what it was to be. After Gurrelieder, the road led on to the forbidding atonal shrieks...
Sold with Hymns. "I was a perfect child," Sir Thomas once remarked. "Never spoke, never cried!" Presumably, the perfect child owed his disposition to the consumption of Beecham's Pills, a laxative invented by his grandfather, a Lancashire horse doctor. Eventually the sale of Beecham's Pills rose to a million a day with the aid of a hymn book circulated free of charge and containing a famous quatrain...
...DESIRING, by Menno Gallie (192 pp.; Harper; $3.50) is a sort of border ballad about the frontier between England and Wales. Few Americans think of that line as much of a barrier, but to Griff Rowlands, a hymn-singing Welshman from a valley full of coal tips and chapels, it is booby-trapped with social snares and moral menace. At 24, he gets an appointment as assistant lecturer in mathematics at one of the new raw "red brick" universities in the English provinces. Starting writh this subject matter, Menna Gallie's brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves...