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Friday, May 12, at 8:30 o'clock a public Concert of Early Music will be presented by the Harvard Music Department in the Exhibition Room of Houghton Library. A program consisting of works by Buxtehude, Corelli, Marcello, and Telemaun will be played by Wolfe, Wolfinsohn, Violin, Iwan d'Archambeau, 'cello, and Erwin Bodky, harpsichord...
...members of the famous quarter are: Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin: Bernard Robbins, second violin; Marcel Dick, viola; and Iwan d'Archambean, cello...
...patriot is Iwan, idealistic favorite son of a powerful Shanghai banker. Drawn into a secret group of revolutionary students, he organizes an armed corps among the Shanghai silkworkers, narrowly escapes Chiang Kai-shek's blood purge of the Communists in 1927. His father saves his life by exiling him to Japan...
...Japan, where half the book is laid, Iwan is soon soothed by the exquisitely regimented life of the Muraki family, surmounts exquisitely ruthless objections to marry their beautiful daughter Tama. They have two sons, live a happy life-until news of the war in China leaks through the almost impenetrable censorship. When the Japanese begin bombing Shanghai, Iwan goes home to fight. But before he does so, he and Tama have made their private peace. Stoically heartbroken Tama vows to keep his photograph surrounded with flowers, not to let their sons forget...
...mission." But because Herta is too intellectual, and "woman's task is to be beautiful and to bring children into the world," they separate. Michael writes his play, is rebuffed by Munich intellectuals, becomes a miner in the Ruhr. Then the book really gets creepy. A mysterious Russian, Iwan, appears, tempts Michael, is defeated ("I am stronger than he. I take him by the throat. I dash him to the ground"), and after making some political observations, Michael dies, murmuring "worker...