Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary's College, 30 years ago, Joe Engel pitched a perfect (no-man-to-reach-first) baseball game. Grabbed by the Washington Senators, his pitching went sour. Manager Clark Griffith shooed Engel off to the minor-league Minneapolis Millers, told him to swap himself for someone who could play ball. Engel looked the Millers over, sent back Ed Gharrity, a big rawboned catcher. Gharrity turned out to be so good that Engel was hired to scout for Washington...
Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3 in D Minor (Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist, with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor: 9 sides; $5). Composer Rachmaninoff puts one of his war horses through its paces, in Victor's second offering of a Rachmaninoff cycle. First: his Symphony No. 3, with the composer conducting the Philadelphians...
...Kierkegaard, who died in 1855, is slowly being excavated from the Danish. Had this philosopher and mystic not written in a minor language, his fame would have resounded with that of Carlyle, Nietzsche, Dostoevski. It was upon Kierkegaard's assertion of romantic individualism that Scandinavian literature in the last century rose to world-famed greatness and influence. He was the prototype of Ibsen's gloomy cleric, Brand. Profound also was his influence on Spain's late, great Catholic scholar, Miguel de Unamuno. Yet only in the last five years has more than an inkling of Kierkegaard been...
Such poets as Sandburg, Masters, Riding are brutally panned; kindlier treated are Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Euripides and his translators Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Housman was no great minor poet; he was a man obsessed by an adolescent sense of death, with a knack for popular expression of it. Yeats used magic as Dante used Catholicism, as the spine or frame that great poetry needs. But T. E. Lawrence exemplifies the desperation, the brilliance, the failure, of the man of genius who can find no frame...
...Check Please: "around town with the GID. Review of U.T. movies 7:40 "Music 1 on the Air" Parcell-Dido and Aeneas Handel-Concerto Gross No.12 in B Minor 8:45 News From the Colleges: M.I.T. Night 9:00 "Nine O'clock Jump" 9:30 Swimming Team Bull-Session with Ca pt. Fannies Powers 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" Casella-Suite From La Glara Cropland-El Salon Mexico B loch-quintet for plane and string quartet 10:45 Crimson News and Interview...