Word: ish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead, he is more interested in what happens to the handful who survive to wander over the bare world like ants in the hand of God. Two of the survivors, Ish and Em, meet and begin as bravely as Adam & Eve to repopulate the world. Soon others join them, and by the time Author Stewart leaves The Tribe, it seems to have grown to a community of several hundred...
Stewart also manages a poignant conclusion: one by one the old American survivors die off, and Ish, an antique god whose scepter is a hammer, is left alone with the new generation. One day through the fog of years he sees a half-naked savage standing respectfully before him. "Are you happy?" he quavers. "Things are as they are," the savage replies in puzzlement, "and I am part of them." The Last American passes his scepter to the savage, and dies, murmuring with the grasses and the winds and with Ecclesiastes: "Men go and come, but earth abides...
...Maupassant's Le Rosier de Madame Husson. A bumpkin is chosen King of the May because in the village there is no girl virtuous enough to be Queen, eventually winds up on a roaring toot. To this, Composer Britten hitched a witty, somewhat Peter and the Wolf-ish score, in which each instrument seemed to portray (or mock) a character on stage. There were other Britten trademarks: well-fitting songs and exciting ensembles. Even so, some found Albert's humor, at least in Tanglewood's production, so mordant that it often verged on the grim, and Britten...
...Pratt thinks, the basis of U.S. military success has been the well-tempered amateur squinting down a rifle barrel. "Don't fire till you can see the whites of their eyes" was plain common sense to colonials facing the parade-ground tactics of the 18th Century Brit ish army; later, as any World War II infantryman who sweated out the world's most thorough rifle instruction in training camp knows, the common sense of the 17703 became doctrine. Pratt leaves it to his publishers, in a jacket blurb, to add that "the national tradition that included Daniel Boone...
Kabalevslcy: Sonata No. 3, Opus 46 (Vladimir Horowitz, piano; Victor, 4 sides). Contemporary Soviet Composer Dmitri Kabalevsky's melodic, if Mussorgsky-ish, piece is more Pianist Horowitz' meat than the Mozart Sonata in F Major, K. 332, also available this month. Both recordings: good...