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"The Man of Destiny," which completes H. D.'s bill for the evening, is decidedly one of Shaw's lesser efforts, and the Club has hardly improved on it. Acting, direction, and settings are adequate, but hardly more than that. The production would be satisfactory for any ordinary college dramatic...
Other religious music pales beside the Mass. Mozart and Beethoven both wrote masses of unquestionable beauty, but since they were more in the secular tradition than Bach they did not succeed so well in pouring into these works their own greatness of spirit. The Easter music from "Parsifal" likewise, for...
Captain Hornblower has no actual prototype, though he somewhat resembles Admiral Nelson. A tall, slightly paunchy sea dog with thinning hair, Hornblower is a highstrung, self-doubting man who gets seasick at the start of a cruise, worries about losing his job, goes clammy at the start of a fight...
To Pikeville (pop. 3,376), in the drab, hilly, coal-mining country at Kentucky's eastern point, its First National Bank is a wonder that never pales. First National's employes, who start at $85 a month and get four-week vacations, try "to treat each customer as...
In the summer of 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte spoke to his Council of State: "If the European states intend every to renew the war, the sooner it comes the better. Every day the remembrance of their defeats grows dimmer and at the same time the prestige of our victories pales . . . . France...