Word: prometheus
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...every wide-awake, decent man on earth. Political Self-Portrait is a kind of rebel's hornbook, full of references to the doctrines and deeds of those who Wheelwright felt have most signally helped-and hindered-truth-telling and liberty. On the angels' side, among others, are Prometheus, Jesus Christ, and the old Rev. John. On the other side may be found Cain, Stalin and Archibald MacLeish...
...with the Simmons College Glee Club and with Janie Steinseld '43, alto, and Hedwig Miehle '41, soprano, as soloists; Bach's "Wir Glauben all' an einem Gott" arranged and conducted by Ellis Kohs 1G; the Purcell Dance Suite with solo flute, Gabriel Jackson '42; and Beethoven's Overture to Prometheus comprise the program...
...program will include Handel's "Welcome as the Cheerful Light from Jeptha" and "Hallelejah, Amen"; "Good News from Heaven" and "Gavote and Muselk"; Beethoven's "Prometheus Overture"; Purcell's "Andante"; Dargomyzhski's "Chorus from Rogdana"; a French Carol, "Ding, Dong Merrily on High"; "The Birch in the Meadow," a Russian folk song; the American folk Song, "Come All ye Fain and Gentle Ladies"; and the English Carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas...
...PROMETHEUS AND THE BOLSHEVIKS-John Lehmann-Knopf ($3.75) Impressionistic travel book on semitropical Russian Georgia, with emphasis on its writers, painters, the Marjhanishvili Theatre, together with random flashbacks of Georgia's turbulent history, a biographical sketch of its most famous native son, Stalin...
Sculptor Paul Manship's gigantic fountain of a leaping Prometheus has stood patiently in the sunken plaza of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center for three years, the butt of more violent criticism, more half-baked humor than any Manhattan Statue since the erection of Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue. Last week artisans at the Roman Bronze Works were putting finishing touches on one of the biggest jobs of bronze casting the company has ever handled, and workmen in Rockefeller Center were chopping holes in the Fifth Avenue pavement for a statue of Atlas destined to distract public attention from...