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...theme is most explicitly stated in The Last Mohican, a wry and witty fable about a serious-minded student named Fidelman who goes to Italy to write a monograph on Giotto. He scarcely steps from his train in Rome before his personal Old Man of the Sea latches onto him: one Shimon Susskind, a slat-thin Jewish refugee from, of all places, Israel ("The desert air makes me constipated...
...group was mainly concerned with getting fuller records on the lower levels of command, and its chief method was on-the-spot interviews of units involved. For his work along these lines and for his monograph on Omaha beach. Taylor was awarded the Legion of Merit. In 1946 he was discharged as a colonel...
There were good moments, too, during the playing of Monograph for Orchestra by Henry Leland Clark '28. The piece gave some members of the orchestra, particularly a few among the woodwinds and brasses, a chance to display their individual talents. On one hearing the work itself seemed fairly coherent, although dependent for its principal effect upon the manipulation of peculiar timbres. But beneath this outward, coloristic impression gained at the first hearing may lie a sturdier core. At any rate, the orchestra is to be commended for playing this little-heard music, and it should continue the policy by including...
Granted that work such as The Study of History has to be superficial. Mr. Toynbee admits it. He even declares it a virtue. At the outset he claimed that he wanted to move the horizon of historical writing beyond the monograph once again. But there is an important difference between incompleteness and incorrectness. And some may add, if only the faults stopped there...
...Court for fourteen years, Justice Jackson was in an extremely favorable position to observe the effects of Judicial action on national policy. His book provides a soundly reasoned statement of the Court's position. Unintentionally, he has also written an analysis of judicial character and motivation that make this monograph absorbing reading for anyone who follows the history of the Supreme Court and the personalities who shape its development...