Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clearly Joseph Freeman's hope, in his first novel, to write a political and spiritual history of the 20th Century to date. His hero, Paul Schuman, a middle-class Viennese, thinks and feels along this century's grand median line of liberal optimism. He suffers, like many of the century's most symbolic men, in a concentration camp. He escapes, as most of them have not, to the U.S., where hope and war are relatively fresh, and where, with a psychoanalyst's help, he becomes fit for new fighting...
...Schuman is a historian, concentrated-evidently like his author-not only on the vision of freedom, but also on those obstacles to freedom which seem intrinsic in the very effort to achieve it. When he is telling his own story, he offers a perhaps too facile newsreel of the past two decades." When he is talking history and quoting-he quotes, it seems, nearly every man who has ever written well, usually very aptly-Never Call Retreat becomes as rich an anthology of ravenous reading as ever disguised itself as a novel. When he is talking politics, or living them...
Giving their second performance of William Schuman's "Free Song" in two weeks, 55 men from the Harvard Glee Club will travel down to Carnegle Hall tomorrow for an afternoon concert with the Boston Symphony under the direction of Serge Koussevitsky...
...born conductor had Manhattan's surliest critics holding their breaths with excitement. He was an earnest-looking, square-faced, 26-year-old Californian, Robert Shaw, and he was conducting a hastily trained chorus of 170-odd singers in a program of modern music by Manhattan's William Schuman...
Professor Frederick L. Schuman of Williams is the author of a leading article which falls below the standards of the issue as a whole. Starting from the unassailable premise that Allied soldiers have no faith strong enough to match that of the Wehrmacht, Professor Schuman indulges in phrases such as "supersede national sovereignity" with no discussion of the tremendous obstacles involved...