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...would have taken a Gustave Doré to do justice to the big beauty of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. No Dore, Disney peoples his classical Olympus with smirking "centaurettes," smirkingly brassiered, with calf-eyed centaurs and kewpie-doll cupids, makes Bacchus' bacchanale look like a nursery lemonade party, leaves his audience wondering whether he is serious, or merely trying to be cute by putting diapers on Olympus...
...Hungarian Plain to Germany. The Dinaric Alps which cut off that plain from the Adriatic Sea and Mussolini are not the highest mountains in Europe but some of the most rugged and impassable. The Pindus Mountains in Albania and northern Greece are considerably higher (they include Mt. Olympus, 9,730 ft., with Ossa and Pelion handy for climbing) but much easier to traverse with an army. There are actually two or three roads through them...
Just 16 men are to appear, top-flight biologists and physicists all, at a symposium. In one room they will sit as on a sort of scientific Olympus, and each will make a formal statement of the most interesting truths he knows about biological cells and protoplasm. Then they will swap ideas and comments and, inevitably, some of them will, in the most abstruse scientific terms, call some others liars...
Richard Halliburton fulfilled himself in many ways and made it pay. He batted about Europe and the Orient, toured Tibet, climbed Fujiyama in midwinter. He mounted Olympus, swam the Hellespont, followed the trail of Ulysses from Ithaca back to Ithaca. Women's clubs began to clamor for him to address them and in 1925 he published his first book, The Royal Road to Romance...
...reporters tumbled off their Olympus. Sore on their individual accounts, they were particularly angry because the resolution was aimed at the New York Times'?, fair and able Louis Stark, who by example has generally done more than any other one man to raise the level of labor reporting. The Lewis dinner was "off the record." But plenty was said to him and Guild President Heywood Broun...