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Wrath & Terror. Unhappily, Author Hersey chooses to tell the story in novel form, and employs one of the oldest and least effective technical tricks for giving fiction the authentic tang of fact: he pretends that he is merely the editor of papers written by Eyewitness Noach Levinson. This gabbiest of notetakers is supposed to have lived out the days of wrath and terror pen in hand, documenting the horror minute by minute, until he had built up a jumbo collection of manuscript and clippings filling 17 iron boxes and a number of parcels. These he buried before slipping away through...
Author Hersey makes a point of his editorial integrity in letting his character Noach have his own say in his own way, but an editor really on the job would have cut the story by a third or quarter to make it that much more direct and that much more moving. As it stands, gabby Noach. too introspective to give a clear account of action, and too intellectual to understand the urgent, passionate movements of the human heart, bores the reader into indifference. An effective criticism of the book and evidence of one character's sound common sense appears...
...fourth of the Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts in Sanders Theatre will be played tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Sylvian Noach, violinist, will be the soloist. The following program will be presented: Symphony in E flat major, No. 1, Haydn Ballet Music (No. 2 of Geraert's Suites des Dances Celebres), Gluck Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, No. 4, Mozart Concerto in F major for strings and two wind orchestras, Handl...
...EXPOSITION OF CHAMBER MUSIC. Mr. Whiting, assisted by Mr. Silvain Noach and Mr. Georg Wendler. New Lecture Hall, 8 P. M. Open only to officers and students of the University...
...expositions of chamber music will be given in New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. It will be open to members of the University only, and no admission will be charged. The following program will be rendered by Mr. Whiting, at the pianoforte, assisted by Mr. Silvain Noach, violin, and Mr. Georg Wendler, waldhorn, both of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...