Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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All Overtones. It was not to be a scholar. "I'm just a schoolmaster," Baxter would say. He was also, he would add, "the last of the sentimentalists." To him literature was more than facts and footnotes: "It is all overtones. History is clear cut. Geography stays put. But...
To him the past is thrilling. Except for coeds who knit in class, nothing irritates him more than people who refuse to look back. "Anyone who thinks that the world began in 1921," he snaps, "has missed the boat as a human being." Before each of Shakespeare's plays...
Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 (William Kapell, pianist, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). One of Prokofiev's earlier and better works; powerful and percussive, it is just right for hammer-handed young (27) Pianist Kapell. Recording: excellent.
Hoagy had had the inspiration for the tone poem in his memory since boyhood. He was born in Bloomington, six miles from hilly, rural Brown County, and often went there on fall outings. Brown County in Autumn had "written itself," he said, "just like any song that I compose." It...
Heartened by such new facilities for geriatric surgery, Dr. Toma says: "We hear and read so much about the ghastliness of old age, of the crippled and pain-racked bodies. I don't think much of this is necessary. I think we can do for the old-timers just...