Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the well-to-do resort town of Carmel, Calif, has become a kind of Bayreuth of Bach. Last week Carmel again paid its tribute to the master with a full week of his music. A good many Carmelites frankly preferred the Shriners' circus in nearby Salinas. But those who gave Bach a try got preludes and fugues on the organ, cantatas, all the Brandenburg concertos and a few works by other 18th Century composers. The big event was two performances of the great B Minor Mass. It rated a B minus for Bach -the strings were uneven...
Messianic Attitude. "It has become fashionable in Catholic circles to take pot shots at Freudianism and psychoanalysis. To be sure, prominent psychoanalysts from the great Viennese master down have often invited censure by their messianic attitude, by their harsh and crude condemnation of certain things commonly held sacred, by their loose and extravagant vocabulary, and by their pan-sexualist allegories. However, eminent thinkers and practitioners, Catholics among them, have, after careful examination and trial, recognized substantial contributions to psychology and psychiatry made by the psychoanalytic school. Obviously, some effort towards rapprochement and synthesis is in order...
...things get slightly out of hand when the master of the house, his divorced wife, and sundry assorted veterans, children, and cops move into the mansion. Up to a certain point the story seems fairly credible. But several scenes, particularly the one in which two patrolmen are so overcome by the beauty of a Christmas Eve gathering that they refrain from reporting the intruders, move the action into the realm of fantasy. By this lapse and by over emphasizing some rather obvious developments, IHOFA lessens its effectiveness. The use of phony emotionalism is unnecessary as the plot is a natural...
...found the ailing 76-year-old master in bed. Picasso wanted to buy a painting, but Matisse said that he would rather make a trade. Next day Picasso appeared with several choice canvases, and Matisse chose one he liked. When Picasso looked around Matisse's room to make his choice, he noticed that Matisse had craftily hidden away all his best pictures. Finally, Picasso spied a little piece of paper on a bedside table. On it, Matisse had scrawled the outline of an apple. Matisse protested that it was just a rough sketch, and unfinished. Nothing else would...
...made his home in Plymouth since his retirement as master of classical languages at Cambridge Latin School in 1905. Before that he was principal of the Plymouth High School. Since his retirement he has made a second career for himself as a geneologist and historian...