Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Schweitzer, now 72, is still fighting death and ignorance in the jungle. So many highbrows (familiar with his scholarly books and his recordings of organ music) have referred to him as the greatest man in the world that he is sometimes known as "the great man's great man." His audience has never been large; but now, at the end of his life, it may at last be dramatically expanding. Two Schweitzer biographies have already appeared this fall: a slick, popular book called Prophet in the Wilderness, by Hermann Hagedorn (Macmillan; $3), and a scholarly book by George...
Thirty years later, the mission was taken up by a man who had played the organ between movies at Manhattan's Capitol Theater. Jacob Maurice Coopersmith, a stubby, dedicated, bustling man with thick eyeglasses, caught the fever too. He caught it quite by accident. At Harvard, working on a Ph.D. thesis, he had trouble finding his way through Chrysander's 100 volumes of the Handel "complete" works: they had no thematic index. He decided to make one. After two years at it he had caught up with Chrysander, but had accounted for only two-thirds of Handel...
Died. Victor Lvovich Kilbalchich (pen name: "Victor Serge"), 56, former Communist journalist, Trotskyite anti-Stalinist (Russia 20 Years After); of a heart attack; in Mexico City. A member of the Communist International's first Congress in 1919, Serge was managing editor of its official theoretical organ, Communist International. He was jailed briefly in 1928 by the GPU, exiled to Siberia in 1933, released in 1936 following a hullabaloo by Europe's leading writers...
This Time Tomorrow (by Jan de Hartog; produced by the Theatre Guild) is as solemn as a church organ and as hollow as a drum. A young scientist working on cancer research falls in love with a young girl dying of tuberculosis. Indeed, the X rays proclaim that she should already be dead; what is keeping her alive is a passionate desire to reproduce. She is additionally remarkable for having learned the nature of death, and for having visions that foretell the future...
...pieces--a prelude and allegro by Couperin and an organ fugue of Bach--were played in modern orchestrations--by Milhaud and Williams respectively. Music critics of good taste have for years been screaming at conductors like Stokowski and Koussevitsky not to distort Bach, but when the orchestration is done by composers of the calibre of Williams and Milhaud, the result is quite different. Like a great translation which becomes a work of art by its own merits, a good transcription becomes a piece of music which can be enjoyed as a new work. Purists might still complain, but with...