Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birth of this magnum opus, which will name, with all the care usually assigned to picking All American football teams, and Davis Cup tennis, a "carefully sifted list" of several hundred students, whom the compilers firmly believe to be in at least the upper brackets...
...concerts will be Bach's monumental "St. Matthew's Passion," a work which is so long that it is always split into two parts, the first of which is sung before dinner. Refreshed, the Club will then return to complete the second two hour section of Bach's magnum opus...
...spinsters and their old brother starve slowly and primly in their Manhattan mansion while he labors on the magnum opus that is to restore their fortunes. When they see at last it is no go, they primly turn...
...Harvard, where he studied under the late Professor George Pierce Baker in his famed 47 Workshop. After traveling and studying in Europe he got a job as instructor in the English department at New York University. Five years ago he resigned to devote himself to his magnum opus, went to Europe again on a Guggenheim Fellowship. An omnivorous reader, he says of his hero "Within a period of ten years he read at least 20,000 volumes." After futile searches for "a place to write," Thomas Wolfe is at present living in Brooklyn. Says Eugene, in autobiographical disgust...
...less interesting as a novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum opus. 3 MEN DIE-Sarah Gertrude Millin- Harper ($2.50). Sombre story of a South African murderess, by the author of God's Stepchildren. Non-Fiction...