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...used to say of his pink, shiny face: "I look like Mr. Pickwick." He still meets Monday nights for a learned chat with Harvard's Society of Fellows, invites friends to his apartment for coffee and conversation. Most of them agree at least one-third with Gertrude Stein, who once wrote: "Only three times in my life have I met a genius and each time a bell rang within me. . . . The three geniuses [are] Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and Alfred Whitehead...
President and Mrs. Conant were among the crowd of 2000 that covered the surrounding grass and walks. Under the sure-footed direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, perched on a lower step, the Club highlighted the concert with a Gertrude Stein selection from "Four Saints in Three Acts." Critical Widener concert-goers called it a little less reserved than the library's stacks, if not exactly comparable...
...crammed into Chicago's Copacabana to hear him sing. Rudy's idea of up-to-date stuff was stale master-of-ceremonies patter and a try at ventriloquism. His routine was as wooden as his dummies (Ezry, Sally Ann and Linoleum). Only when he sang The Stein Song and As Time Goes By in his old nasal way did the crowd stop sitting on its hands...
...half of the concert, Eliot Carter's Tarantella; "Mater, Ades, Florum," precipitated a mass unrest in the graves of La Seala ghosts with its sometimes odd, other times uproarious parody of Latin opera. A tonor with a southern accent high-lighted the successful rendition of a somewhat redundant Gertrude Stein text set to Virgil Thomson music, and the Radcliffe group did nicely with Professor Ballantine's fine blending of music and words in Lake Werna's Water, a work dedicated to Professor Woodworth. A good performance of the Hindemith Choral Fugue ended the program...
...small (circ. 6,500) and often confused voice. Once Communist, it shifted to quasi-Trotskyite, is now vaguely Marxian (but anti-Stalinist), and more literary than partisan. In its 13 years it has published such U.S. writers as John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, and Gertrude Stein...