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...Forster and John Galsworthy. Swinnerton's talent was somehow overshadowed by his contemporaries. H. G. Wells ruefully confessed to Arnold Bennett that Swinnerton "achieves a perfection that you and I never get within streets of." In Death of a Highbrow, the perfection is still evident in the cool, muscular style, and in his merciless view of man's behavior relieved by what Bennett called Swinnerton's "mysterious touch of fundamental benevolence...
...Muscular students were perfecting gymnastic displays to celebrate the 43rd anniversary of Kemal Ataturk's campaign of liberation from the Ottoman pashas and their Western allies. In the southern town of Mardin near the Syrian border, thousands of fans rioted during a soccer game, then fought off police and soldiers who tried to put down the melee. Nightclubbers at the Istanbul Hilton twisted to an Italian band; pub crawlers in the Ankara Palas Hotel leered at "Velvet Veronique," a stripteaser from Paris billed as "Queen of the Crazy Horse Saloon." Such was normalcy in Turkey...
...scale ballet perform ance in White House history.- (The dancers had been hastily rehearsing all day, under the direction of choreographer Robbins and the approving eye of the First Lady, who graciously allowed them to use the Green Room as a temporary dressing room.) Glancing at one of the muscular male dancers. Vice President Lyndon Johnson whispered to Jackie that "they make me feel flabby...
...Philippines, and Thailand, but it sounds as if it has never escaped the office of G. Schirmers in New York. Only the Indian anthem by Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Khoro Bayu Boy Bege ("The Optimist Against Odds") breaks loose: a vigorous unison from start to stop suggests the musically muscular Soviet Army Chorus, with which, incidentally, the Glee Club compares quite favorably. Before covering Italy, Germany, France, and England on Side Two, the Club creates a various and delightful performance of Bela Bartok's Five Slovak Folksongs...
Making Tradition. The civilized world savors the pleasures and treasures of Rome, Paris and the other Old World cities whose everyday lives are still corseted in tradition. Beside them, the modern American city seems a muscular, lunging, rollicking giant, straining toward new heights and making up his own tradition as he climbs. Yet for all their indiscriminate bustle, the big cities of the U.S. have developed distinct personalities of their own, with much deeper differences than a palm tree or a peep show might suggest. Of them all, five cities, spread from coast to coast and north to south, reflect...