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Only a small minority of concertgoers are chamber-music fans. But, like most minorities, they are dogged. Among the most tenacious of the lot is Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, a portly, good-natured, partly-deaf widow who spends her summers near Pittsfield, Mass. Twenty years ago, when the World War was...
This changed opinion of Alcott reveals a new view of old New England life. One popular biographical sport of the 1920s consisted of picturing Hawthorne, Emerson and their fellows as frustrated Puritans or insipid moralists. But Alcott was so indifferent to worldly success, so unintimidated by misfortune and so generally...
The General's Lady, a sort of colonial version of the Judd Gray-Ruth Snyder case, tells the story of a beautiful, vainglorious Tory adulteress, Morganna Bale, wife of a middleaged, good-natured Continental general. In the last year of the Revolution, when the story begins, Morganna acquires two...
The unblinking realism of Farrell's pictures of lower-class life made critics overlook their monotony, their repetitions, and the fact that all the characters seemed to divide their time between languid day dreaming and fierce battling with other dreamers. When he finished his Studs Lonigan trilogy three years...
After a few good-natured, accurately aimed Gallic pokes at Dictator Benito Mussolini's habit of forcing his Fascist Party chiefs to jump through burning hoops, hurdle bayonet rows and dive over tanks, bespectacled, stocky, 34-year-old French Minister of Education Jean Zay last week started up 15...