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Academic work for the Nineteenth Class of the Chaplain School began last Wednesday and will continue for five weeks until graduation, December...
...most glaring fault that a survey of programs would show, is that they have been as unbalanced as Humpty Dumpty on his wall, and neither Dr. Koussevitsky nor his orchestra have been able to put them together very coherently. I have heard enough late nineteenth and early twentieth century works to last me through three seasons. Music of such mediocrity as Lopatnikoff's Sinfonictta Opus 27, Martinu's 1st Symphony, Bennett's "Sights and Sounds," and Loeffler's "A Pagan Poem" have been foisted off under the wornout banner of "giving the other fellow a chance," or "Becthoven and Brahms...
Nearly to the end of the nineteenth century China knew little of the western world and cared less. Chinese education took account only of Chinese literature, ethics, history and art and of such sciences as had long been known in the Far East. To the Chinese, surrounded as they were by nations inferior in civilization, their world was the whole world. Westerners then regarded this Chinese provincial complacency with annoyance or amused condescension, and patronizingly applauded the recent Japanese effort to acquire western knowledge. But bitter experience, culminating in the incursions of foreign powers at the end of the century...
...problem which Daiches poses is a crucial one. How shall a sensitive artist with a rich background in the fairly stable tradition of the nineteenth century write about a society where public values have broken down almost completely, and even personality is in flux? The critic traces Virginia Woolf's attempt at a solution, from her earliest novels, through her boldly experimental short stories, to the great achievements of her middle period, and the less successful attempts of her later years, which were carried off by sheer virtuosity in her command of language. He shows how she introduced the lyric...
...Pirate" has been produced and directed in true motion picture style, even down to the final clinch--with the right man. Brilliant color was splashed across the stage in the scenery and costumes of nineteenth century West Indies. Several imaginative mechanical devices, along with the panorama of color, attempt to liven up the pace. But color cannot move a stationary figure, nor brighten a static line. Bravura in production must have support in the script, and Mr. Behrman has let everyone down...