Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Symphony played last week, for instance, has long passages in a distinctly lyrical mood. Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58, which was played at the Longy School last evening, shows how remarkably his style had softened since the time of his Violin Sonata and the works of his middle life. The same development is apparent in Prokofiev. The change from the acrid dissonance of works like the Scythian Suite to the out-and-out romanticism of the G minor Violin Concerto is one of the most striking examples of what has been going on in the last few years...
...worst sort of nuisance to this particular bundle of joy, for gentlemen, those pictures you've seen don't lie. She provides the visual stimulus, while Ethel Merman tickles the erotic funnybone. Ethel could put over a song to a deaf mute and teach the facts of life to a Trappist monk by gestures alone. And also, there's Bert Lahr, who seems to have brought the Lahr leer to a new stage of perfection, for not a scene is safe from his clowning...
...Bickford at 5 a.m. muses "why do I ever go to Boston parties?"; for the Brooks House missionary who in the squalor of the slums demands "what can I do for them?";--for these men particularly the Crimson has been proven to have the greatest value. Now if your life--or your shy modesty--prevents you from being included in any one of the aforementioned categories there is no need to give up all hope. Just go and get a medical exam and then trot over to 14 Plympton--the Crimson...
...guns roar, planes zoom, and red blood flow on the battlefields! Civilization is collapsing, but bigger and better books will be written about its sinking. Strangely enough, it appears that most of them will be on one subject, British army life, for that is what publishers seem to crave today. Eleven book concerns in eleven different countries have just awarded a $15,000 prize for a novel on this theme by Major Henriques of His Majesty's Territorials. Now Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners must take a back seat while the doughty Major assumes his place in the forefront...
...Citadels of Snobbery" Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. '41, attacks the club system as a Harvard evil which appears to be on the wane but which still plays a large role in certain limited sectors of Harvard undergraduate life...