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More interesting to musicians than Arnold Dolmetsch's reconstruction of old-time instruments is his research into early music. When he gave his first concert 45 years ago the oldest composition Antiquarian Dolmetsch played dated from the 17th Century. Believing that the past could offer more pungent novelties he studied tirelessly, rediscovered the formal counterpoint and chromatic modulations of the Renaissance. Deciphering manuscripts of Perotin le Grand (circa 1200) revealed a forgotten treasure of intricately constructed works. Moroccan musicians in 1929 taught Dolmetsch the secrets of traditional Andalusian music which influenced 11th and 12th Century European composers...
...bookish wit. He chairmans the potent Judiciary Committee, belongs to the Indian Affairs, Irrigation & Reclamation, Public Lands & Surveys Committees, all important to the political welfare of Arizona. He is not famed for elaborate addresses to his colleagues, but Congressional Records of the past 22 years have been enriched by pungent "remarks" from "the War Eagle of the San Francisco Crags," "the Silver-Tongued Sunbeam of the Painted Desert...
Like the Red Book it begins with a rogue's gallery with pert and pungent little quips beside the velvet-draped likeness and a list of activities such as "Badminton, Hospitality Committee, Member of Class VIII Judicial Board, Associate Justice, and Track Team...
...subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee after nearly a year's investigation made a report on four Federal judges in Chicago. Of one judge, John Peter Barnes, the Committee declared it had no criticism to make. Of three others its criticisms were pungent...
...pointing out on the floor with his free hand the precise geographical situations of the Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire. If, perchance, an extremely important idea hits him, be will make a vicious, but apparently meaningless line on the board, soon to be crossed by another equally pungent and equally obscure. At times of special stress the lines may become arrows flying in remarkably different directions...