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Wolfe based his story on Novelist Roark Bradford's John Henry, the saga of a Negro Paul Bunyan. In 1936, Wolfe had written incidental music for a play based on John Henry (starring Paul Robeson), but the play flopped. For his first opera, he picked up some of the best of his old music, wrote much that...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
...Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord (Jelly Roll Morton; Circle; 12 LP sides issued, 12 to come). Jazz's genesis and exodus, told in seven hours of reminiscence, singing and solid piano-playing by one of its first prophets...
There has not been a better book written about soldiers. In recent years, I believe, there have been few better books written. Jones' saga of a Regular Army unit stationed in Hawaii in the months before Pearl Harbor is narrated with great humor and understandind, and with a degree of skill that is startling in a first novel...