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Part of the mellow effect came from the devoted performance by London's Griller Quartet, for which Bloch wrote the piece. It had its angry trills and thudding undertones, yet over the harshness always rode an affirmative melody. "It is quite natural that I do not react and feel and write as I did at 20, 30, 40, or 50-when I was young," says Bloch...
Always the Young Strangers is old Poet Sandburg exercising mellow and total recall. He seems to remember every playmate, neighbor and town character of the first 20 years of his life. And he tells about them with an artless lack of point and discrimination that flirts perilously with final boredom. A historian 100 years from now may easily conclude: this is how a Midwestern U.S. town must have looked in the 1880s. But the impression would be only tintype deep, for Author Sandburg has seemingly cared little about looking past the frock coats and working clothes for attitudes and feelings...
Harnett's mellow, meticulous style was not easily achieved. A poor boy, he began by selling papers, later made a living engraving silverware. He studied painting at night. Since he could not afford live models, he painted still lifes. Their extreme realism impressed the public from the first...
...William Friese-Greene, inventor of the first motion picture camera (the magic box). Friese-Greene was infatuated with the idea of making slides move both black and white and color. This idea soon became an obsession which dominated his life. Giving a superb sympathetic performance, Donat seems to mellow with his character; white hair, wrinkles, and shuffling step untobtinsively blend into his part. Even Donat's voice slowly acquires an appropriately wistful tone...
...interrupt his graduate studies at Columbia University to take a job in the English Department at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. He meant to stay for only a year, but he stayed for 40, first as a teacher and later as headmaster. Last week, in the course of a mellow autobiography called Independent Schoolmaster (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $5), Claude Fuess told what makes a great teacher, by recalling some of the "Olympians" he has known...