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...ever had a greater passion for justice or a greater vigor in its pur suit. His outward aspect, the material of sculpture, mirrored the temper of the man. He was compact, robust, wiry, alive with energy. His head was squarely, ruggedly shaped, with abundant hair swooping up in a reckless, leonine pompadour. He dressed with what Sculptor Davidson called "careless fastidiousness." Indicative of inward sensitiveness, his fingers were long and slender; his feet, always in glossy shoes, were unusually small...
...Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people and the soil whence they came. He would put them in his music and that music would be unfixed by petty patterns. So the idea grew and out of it came songs with strange, bright har monies and crazy, reckless rhythms. Came Boris with its savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing." Came Khovantchina, The Fair at Sorotchintzy, The Marriage, miscellaneous cho ruses, compositions for piano...
Swarthy and reckless Signer Mario Carli, a young favorite of Il Duce, laid about him outrageously again, last week, in the lurid pages of his arch-Fascist Roman news sheet, L'Impero. Last fortnight Editor Carli outraged smart Italian women who slenderize themselves and refuse to have children by telling them (TIME, Jan. 21) that "such sweet egotists, such darling morsels of vanity, should be soundly smacked on every possible occasion!" Last week, even this ungallant bravado was eclipsed when Smacker Carli took a sounding wallop at tourists...
...lead. Second, if the talkies become dominant, the U. S. may lose its position in foreign markets because U. S. stars can, at best, speak only one language at a time. Therefore, when Mr. Zukor finally pronounced in favor of the talkie, he issued orders for a curtailment of reckless Hollywood expenditures...
...gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics of vulgar splendor and reckless abandon, recorded so readably in Jubilee...