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...change is perhaps due to the aging of the writer (he is a mellow 55), perhaps to the aging of the age. All Quiet was dedicated to a simple proposition: war is hateful, and the best way to prevent it is to hate it enough. It glowed with a kind of sentimentality in reverse. A quarter century later, that stalwart faith has come to seem as old-fashioned and disappointing as the generation that held...
...Rock Bottom. When the men of the Moona Waa Togue "crap up the captain" (praise him), sing their work chanteys ("Who emptied out the bottles from hea-a-ven-n-n, and let the rain fall down-w-w-n-n?"), or joke about the odor of their cargo ("Mellow, eh fellow . . . Real mellow, fellow"), their talk seems the bonus catch in Author Conrad...
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Julius Katchen; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). One of Bartok's last works and also, with its richly sustained orchestration and fluent melodies, one of his most accessible. Pianist Katchen (TIME, March 1) gives it a mellow, sensitive performance...
Bitter Coffee. Once regarded as a very tough character. Private Eye Philip Marlowe seems a rather mellow and gentlemanly sleuth these days, especially when measured against Mickey Spillane's neo-Neanderthal Mike Hammer. For one thing, the years have been kind to Marlowe. Introduced in 1939 (in The Big Sleep) as 33, he is still only 42, still trim and lithe. When the pace gets too hectic, Marlowe heads for the kitchen and makes coffee: "Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men." But he is far from the pipe-and-slippers stage...
Breathing soft and mellow light...