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...voters cast their compulsory ballots (the penalty for not voting is ?2). There was a substantial swing against the Menzies coalition-enough, apparently, to lose him control of the Senate (whose powers are somewhat greater than the mostly ceremonial British House of Lords) but not enough to spell defeat in the House of Representatives, which introduces most key legislation. Once again Menzies will be Prime Minister...
...bandsman is not an ordinary individual, and his type of person is disappearing from Harvard scene, creating a crisis for the band. Six years ago the band numbered round 140; throughout this season Mike Marmor felt luckey to have 90 in the block. A decade ago the band was spelling out three and four words at a time; this year Marmor discovered that he didn't have enough men to spell Harvard. In previous years group spirit and loyalty was raising this fall was at a record low. The football band was in troble: both its size and its spirits...
...I.A.L. ("Izzy") Diamond, have edge and temper. Cagney's wife (Arlene Francis): "But she can't stay long. Doesn't school open soon?" Cagney: "In Georgia? You never know." Cagney's ten-year-old son, hopefully, when the boss's daughter has a fainting spell: "If she dies can I have my room back?" First Communist, bitterly: "Is everybody in this world corrupt?" Second Communist, thoughtfully: "I don't know everybody...
...faithfully translated and copiously annotated as they are, these letters explain everything about Beethoven except his music. "Beethoven's letters are full of sham rhetoric, so obviously sincere," writes Biographer Alan Pryce-Jones. "He never learned to use words, let alone spell them, and scarcely troubled to attach more than an oblique meaning to them . . . He ran no risk of disseminating his feelings in the ordinary intercourse of humanity." Even while Beethoven was composing his finest works-the last quartets-his letters were concerned only with servants, publishers and nephew. Whence came the soaring grandeur and philosophic calm that...
...Shredded Image. In his own work, he has always been an experimenter. In some of his early prints, there is the same emotional quality found in the German expressionists. He flirted with cubism, fell briefly under the surrealists' spell, was for awhile strongly influenced by the shredded image of Picasso. "But my great teacher," he says, "was the Depression. There were lots of ugly things then...