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...setting of the novel is Moscow under the deep snow and deeper temperatures of midwinter, a setting that Blunden etches in many black-&-white details. The crowded misery of the people, their toughness, the splendor of the theater, which Ferguson calls "the opium of the people," a wide scale of Moscow types from factory worker to Red Army marshal, are rendered with fidelity and perception. The book's unifying theme is fear-the fear in which all these people live...
While Allied authorities hunted him, Kusunose went to the foot of Fujiyama, to a deserted army barracks, where he had soldiered as a youth. He sat down facing the great mountain, which rose so steeply above him that he had to bend his head back to see the splendor of the sunlit, snowcapped summit. Kusunose sat down on Dec. 9. On Dec. 17 or 18, Death, which had been creeping nearer for nine days, sat down beside...
Said he of phonograph records: "What moves across the counters? Two or three symphonies and concertos of Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky and a few familiar favorites which are recorded and rerecorded with increasing splendor. Do you want to buy a serious composition by an American composer? Have you ever tried...
...early '40s was in Mexico, under the skilled hand of the late Constantine Oumansky. Like others, he now believes that the cell has shifted to South America, where Communists are working and organizing like beavers (see LATIN AMERICA) . In Buenos Aires, Messersmith can only watch-from the splendor of the colonnaded U.S. Embassy. He feels it is his principal job to get along with Perón, while seeking to contain the Peron influence in Argentina and preventing its spread to the rest of South America...
While the revival of Salzburg's famous Mozart festival proved to be a pathetic imitation of prewar splendor, Switzerland's Semaines Musicales at Lucerne were entirely successful. The festival depended on atmosphere; two flawless performances of Mozart's Requiem Mass in the same candle-lit cathedral which had formerly resounded to Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. And Lucerne itself, a small town of cobbled streets, hand painted wooden-covered bridges, and a lake on the edge of the alps, is no minor stage setting...