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Palmer was much too lax for most of the populace. Letters denouncing him poured into the Justice Department. The New York Times sharply rapped him for his "ancient and outworn views" and his softness toward anarchists. Said Palmer later: "I was shouted at from every editorial sanctum in America from sea to sea; I was preached upon from every pulpit; I was urged-I could feel it dinned into my ears-to do something...
...dreary literary habits, to rework the weary forms, the traditional plots, to stand time on its head and cut capers-as Ionesco, Beckett and Gelber have done in the theater. Whatever results finally, readers at least can be grateful that Neo-Realism's Big Three have discarded as outworn one increasingly obnoxious habit of the standard novelists. They do not bother to describe sex in morbid detail. That alone, if it catches on, could set the novel ahead ten years...
...medium's traditional association with band music has laid it open to dull, unadventurous treatment. Gordon Jacob, for instance, may have called his 1928 piece for winds An Original Suite, but I don't know who he thought he was kidding even then. Peter Mennin likewise sticks by an outworn style of folksy nostalgia in his 1951 Canzona. Vaughan Williams' Toccata Martiale, on the other hand, succeeds because his use of national flavor is tied to a distinct personal idiom, and the ensemble fortunately rallied its coordination for the piece. It did so as well for William Bergsma's March...
...Atheneum exhibition should do away with one outworn illusion: that abstract artists are abstract because they cannot paint images. Esteban Vicente's portrait of his little daughter and the early sculptured heads by Sculptors Reuben Nakian and Louise Nevelson prove that these artists could have successfully stuck to representation had they chosen to. Other early works are not so reassuring. Mark Rothko's floating rectangles, controversial though they are, at least have an air of mystery, and many admirers have fallen under their spell. Had Rothko stuck to realism, as in his Two Women in a Window...
...gifted pianist who longs to enter a conservatory, but to gain admission he must belie his religious beliefs when he replies to the crucial seventh question in a government questionnaire. The state. personified in a likable and persuasive young teacher, urges him to leave his father's "outworn ideas," join the new society: "We need music as well as bread and coal and houses." Against this advice, the boy weighs his father's warning: "If you trade your soul for a career, I don't care how well you play, how famous you become...