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...cold shoulder from all the major Allies. The Tangier conference door was slammed in his face (TIME, Sept. 3). Plagued by drought and lack of food (Spain needs nearly 2,000,000 tons of imported wheat), the Spanish people grow constantly more dispirited. As a U.P. dispatch from San Sebastian in the Basque country delicately put it: "Demonstrations of affection for Spain's leader have been comparatively limited in number and degree of warmth...
...Sebastian Bach's teacher. A Schillinger composer uses numbers for musical notes and rhythms, and geometrical figures for harmonies. He chooses a combination of numbers and geometrical figures which pleases his fancy, then plots this combination on graph paper to make a blueprint that looks promising. The blueprint, transcribed into musical notation, is the piece of music the "engineer" set out to construct. Shaw promised that the Schillinger system could provide 10,000 rhythmic combinations from the 19 basic rhythms used by Mozart and Beethoven...
...from the Hebrides Fingal's Cave, from Italy an Italian Symphony. His merits as a composer have been argued for a century. If his capricious music was not always profound, his mastery of technique sometimes concealed the fact. He was an organist who made Europe aware of Johann Sebastian Bach, and his position as a musicologist is still unchallenged. On the side he filled folios with hundreds of delicate water colors and pen sketches, and he was music's most prolific letter-writer. "This," he once wrote to his mother, "is my 35th letter since yesterday...
...Sebastian returned to England sadder and wiser. Unlike the unhappy, ever-floating Eustace, he intended to follow the "divine white light" before it was too late. When World War II got under way, Sebastian naturally decided that one of the "indispensable conditions of peace" was the establishment of a single religion that could be shared by East and West alike. "It is only by deliberately paying . . . our primary allegiance to eternity that we can prevent time from turning our lives into a pointless or diabolic foolery...
...Hollywood, no plans for returning to England. He is at present completing The Perennial Philosophy-"a kind of anthology with comments-an anthology of the highest common factors in world religion and metaphysical systems." For his own craft as novelist and poet, Aldous Huxley now has small respect. Says Sebastian in Time Must Have a Stop: "Even the best play or narrative is merely glorified gossip. . . . And lyric poetry? Just 'Ow!' or 'Oo-ooh!'or 'Nyum-nyum!' or 'Damn!' or 'Darling...