Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treated are Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Euripides and his translators Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Housman was no great minor poet; he was a man obsessed by an adolescent sense of death, with a knack for popular expression of it. Yeats used magic as Dante used Catholicism, as the spine or frame that great poetry needs. But T. E. Lawrence exemplifies the desperation, the brilliance, the failure, of the man of genius who can find no frame...
...cast. Particularly outstanding are Florence Brown in her aristocratic and foreboding characterization of the Dowager Lady Monchensey; and William Manson in his own convincing interpretation of the conscience-tortured Lord Monchensey. Priscilla Freeman plays a somber and other-wordly figure as Aunt Agatha that will send chills down your spine...
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (Igor Stravinsky conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony; Columbia: 8 sides). The spine-tingling bumps & bleats, grumps & groans of Stravinsky's ballet of pagan Russian rituals caused a near-riot in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky, ordinarily an indifferent conductor of his own works, had an off-night in Manhattan last spring, went to town with the Philharmonic and Le Sacre. Here he repeats the performance, with well-recorded results...
Conductor Stokowski, as mettlesome a showman as he is a musician, gave Manhattan (and, on later nights, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia) a spine-tingling program. His white hands and fuzzy platinum hair gleaming like an oriflamme, he led the youths through a spirited charge on Bach. The violins, on their feet and playing as one man, rattled off one piece, a Preludio, so brilliantly that the audience roared bravos. After the Bach came the Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, melodiously and pompously hymning the Bolshevik October Revolution. By strictest Carnegie Hall standards, the cheers showed that the Youth Orchestra had passed...
...soliciting only the nickel-and-dime end of their business: direct-mail advertising. The rest of the account followed. Today, word that Maxon's is doing a direct-mail campaign for another agency's client is enough to send shivers up and down that agency's spine. For Philadelphia's austere, venerable N. W. Ayer & Son, the shivers materialized last week. From Ayer, which handles the rest of Ford Motor Co.'s national advertising, (McCann-Erickson has the branch advertising) Lou Maxon took the $500,000-or-more-a-year Lincoln-Zephyr account...