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...chief editor, and sums up the origins and distinctive features of existential psychotherapy. Sales are now around the 12,000 mark and continuing briskly. In September came Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (Doubleday; $5), by New York University's Professor William Barrett-the most lucid exposition of the subject yet to appear in English. Between them, these books have sharply increased U.S. interest in existentialism, and especially its use in psychotherapy...
...same time slot on CBS, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic provided immense excitement with a partial performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, accompanied by one of Bernstein's uniquely lucid music-appreciation lectures. A leaner, older-looking Lenny-part of the change was obviously due to a haircut-was in top form as conductor, showman and talker, although the grandeur of the Ninth had him reaching hard for genius-sized words. Bernstein conducted the symphony's final movement in a brilliantly balanced performance. The Philharmonic had played the Ninth under Guest Conductor Herbert von Karajan...
...fact that Corinth's instincts were always poetic makes his flaw particularly lamentable. Shimizu might take his cue. When Corinth does a watercolor like The Beautiful Imperia, a loose wash of lucid color, he arrives at a quality which most of his Teutonic contemporaries generally lack--a naive loveliness, (the word used wholly in complimentary fashion.). The same goes for Susanna and the Elders or Imperial Palace. But when he draws, or tries to draw, his linear Knight, the result is nothing short of inexcusable...
With Gray's own lucid structure and fine woodcuts by his hospital colleague, Dr. Henry Vandyke Carter, the first 750-page (3 Ibs. 4 oz.) edition was a medical bestseller. The British Medical Journal quickly called it "The manual of anatomy," and it soon outsold the much-higher-priced standard work. Quain's Anatomical Plates...
...shuffled in from the vestry on short, hesitant feet, bearing a brown-grained viola da gamba by the pegs. When he motioned the audience to its seats with his bow, his movements were crabbed with age. But when he began to play, the vast, hollow church filled with luminous, lucid sound, suffused with a passion that is the wonder of musicians the world over. Each night the audience paid Casals the only tribute permitted in the church, rising to their feet and standing in hushed silence...