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Ullin Leavell (rhymes with revel) was an obvious choice to oversee the Modern McGuffey. He heads the McGuffey Reading Clinic at the University of Virginia, where McGuffey himself taught for 28 years (1845-73). Leavell even owes his first name of Ullin to McGuffey. His parents were especially fond of Thomas Campbell's poem Lord Ullin's Daughter, which they had read as children in a McGuffey reader. For years Leavell has argued for a new version of old values. "It takes no more time to teach the child the phrase 'right or wrong,'" he says...
...brilliant Liszt idiom. Fortissimo octaves boomed and cadenzas scintillated with the appropriate spice and dash. Lubow has one disturbing mannerism, however--he will linger on an appogiatura until the suspense becomes unbearable and the note of resolution is given up forever as lost. The orchestra, which seemed to revel in the bacchanalian decadance of the music, gave the pianist all the support he needed...
...attendant, remarked matter-of-factly, "I won't be needing this any more." Venice can boast no profound thinkers, no religious martyrs, no native-born legendary lovers. Of the world, worldly, it pursued wealth and reared up pleasure domes to become what Byron called "the revel of the Earth, the masque of Italy." But the Venetian eye was as "true as a jeweler's lens," and it lusted for lasting beauty. Venice had few friends when she ruled the seas but, as Mary McCarthy's grave and gracious tribute reaffirms, time was one of them...
...conflict in Miss Julie is as much be tween classes as sexes. At a Midsummer Eve revel, arrogant, dissatisfied Miss Julie, the neurotic child of parents who hated each other, becomes infatuated with her father's valet and tempts him into an affair. Respectful enough beforehand, he turns sneeringly overbearing. But, however revolted, Miss Julie is also desperate. She steals her father's money to try to run away with her lover, in the end seizes her lover's razor to do away with herself...
...grand sight- yet not so grand that the spectator wonders if he has not arrived for the Dardanelles campaign 3,000 years late. The chariot chases are breakneck things. Best of all, though, is the passage in which the colossal horse comes gliding into Troy on a churning revel, like the thought of death on the full flood of life...