Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations for placing willpower ahead of brainpower and manpower on the cover of the current issue of TIME [Oct. 5]. Right now there isn't anything America needs so much as willpower. Adolf the Awful and Tojo the Treacherous must derive real satisfaction from our indecision and inaction...
...asked yourself that before, and the answer isn't far away. You, who have chased jazz through dives you would never ordinarily looked at twice, who have chased jazz through dingy little second stores and haggled over the price of a beat-up Louie Hot Five, who have chased jazz from record store to record store after a cutout Goodman Trio, you have your experience to answer...
Luckily, the Budapest Quartet isn't hiding its light under a bushel. They can be heard every Sunday morning over some Columbia stations from 11:05 till 12, and Columbia has just released their excellent reading of the Beethoven 11th, or "serioso" quartet. They are at their best in this playing of Beethoven's sombre, powerful music, and the recording is highly recommended to anyone who still thinks quartets dull or stuffy...
Other paradoxes crop up in the Repertory Theatre's plans for the coming season. The company isn't repertory any more, for it will present stock for two weeks at a time. The group has announced that comedy will be the main fare this year, but contradicts its own rule by scheduling Eugene O'Neill's tragic "Outward Bound" as the next presentation...
...tiny theatre between Scollay Square and Charles Street Station overcomes its early-season tenseness and returns to the higher standards of previous seasons, it should easily fill the converted stable which it grandly calls an "auditorium." The Playhouse isn't great drama, but the plays are consistently chosen from tested works. Both the triteness and the crowding of wartime movies can be avoided by dropping into Boston's only permanent amateur theatre...