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...international orchestral orgy, a festival with virtuosi and orchestras from 50 countries, from Asia to the Argentine, with programs telling the history of music from Palestrina to Gershwin, began last week to loom as the major event of Manhattan's 1030-31 concert season...
...Fogg Museum will this morning open a new exhibit. This show will be a presentation of hand loom fabrics illustrating weaves...
...Paul's alumni were surprised if not shocked to hear the news. To be Pennsylvania's bishop coadjutor is a great thing, they thought, but does it compare with being headmaster of St. Paul's? So large does Dr. Drury loom in the minds of St. Paul's men that to them it seemed almost presumptuous of the Pennsylvania Episcopalians to offer him the Number Two position in their State. Even more disquieting was this thought: suppose Dr. Drury should feel that his duty lies in Pennsylvania! What then would become of St.Paul...
...Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what loom, one wonders, was such a fabric woven?" About all that the tailor-editor-art critic approved was Artist Oswald Birley's portrait of George V in black jacket, double-breasted fawn waistcoat, grey striped trousers...
Throughout his book he traces his brilliant idea which must perforce rank with the most gracious, sympathetic?and effective?missionary approaches. Two figures loom: the Christ, of course, and Mahatma Gandhi.? It is in Gandhi, he finds, or in one like him, that India will find the Christ. Curious is the parallel which Indians already draw between their great leader and Jesus Christ. Gandhi has suffered, fasted, been imprisoned. And many an Indian, now first glimpsing the new figure on the Indian road, has reverently paralleled Yerravada, Gandhi's first prison, with Calvary...