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...Five, by Saxophonist Paul Desmond-had the rare distinction among jazz records of remaining on the pop charts for three months. In Britain, where he drew record crowds and collected $100,000 at the box office, Brubeck was mobbed by squealing teenagers. But the Sunday Times's Iain Lang has summed up the general critical response in one sneering line: "Jazz in a grey flannel suit...
...Montclair got its museum almost in spite of itself. Around 1910 an elderly collector named William Evans offered to leave 40 American paintings, including a Ralph Albert Blakelock and a Childe Hassam, to Montclair, provided that the town put up a suitable building. When the town hesitated, Mrs. Henry Lang, an heir to the Rand mining machinery millions, briskly decided to get things moving by putting up $50,000 herself. In 1914 the neoclassic building opened its doors...
Since then, it has acquired some gifts that have little to do with its chosen field. Mrs. Lang gave it a collection of American Indian art that is one of the best in the East. It has a collection of Scotch, Irish and French silverware-and 600 Chinese snuff bottles. But these items came by bequest; the museum uses its own funds to buy U.S. paintings, drawings and etchings...
Thus far, the people-to-people, international goodwill aspect of the tour has been fulfilled almost beyond expectations. In Japan, where choral singing has been taken up with almost religious fervor, four groups from Japanese universities joined the Americans in a booming, 400-voice rendition of "Auld Lang Syne...
...good Greek, or in his words from the poem, to "tell us in our time, lift the great song again." Each generation must do it in its own idiom. If there is missing "like ocean on the Western beach/The surge and thunder of the Odyssey" (in Translator Andrew Lang's phrase), it is because of the tight course Fitzgerald set himself. His aim was to make an easily spoken-verse story in the idiom of today, which is not notable for grandeur, elegance, or even the ceremonious conversational usages of a generation ago. How can anyone seriously be called...