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Prokofiev's score, ably conducted by Julius Rudel, is appropriately dissonant and heavily percussive. Soprano Schauler, whose surmounting of Prokofiev's vocal obstacle course was achievement enough, proved a splendid actress as well. But then, as one who admits to powers of ESP, she was a natural for the role. As for seeing flaming angels, she says she took lessons from her five-year-old son, Jeffrey, who had an invisible playmate named Timothy...
From its first appearance in the Harvard catalog in the fall of 1941, Perry Miller's English 274, "Romanticism in American Literature", supplied its creator with a splendid vehicle for his own explorations. From a student's point of view, the course was successful as few courses ever are, and its graduates are now among the most distinguished scholars in American studies, holding professorial chairs from Harvard to Berkeley...
...That was a splendid cover story [Sept. 10] on Henry Fowler, a very dedicated man and one who is tops in his field...
...Angeles' splendid new Music Center, 1,500 members of the Retail Clerks Union sat in red-plush comfort beneath crystal chandeliers. Before getting down to the business of a union meeting, they heard a concert climaxed by a specialized composition called The Shopping Center Blues. They chuckled appreciatively when Local Leader Joe Silva explained that his hoarseness was caused by "executive flu " De Silva noted that a minority of the Music Center's board had protested that a union meeting was not the sort of "cultural" activity for which the $32.2 million center (including $25,000 contributed...
Brushing past Kamisar at the end of the session, Murphy returned in kind, grunted only: "That was awful." Chief Justice Warren diplomatically praised the discussion as "splendid, fair and searching." Pointing out that he had been a law-enforcement officer himself (chief deputy district attorney of Alameda County, Calif., for two years and California's attorney general for four years) Warren said that he had abundant sympathy for the problems of the police...