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After they left, the rest of the College musicians took up the beat and played until after nine o'clock. Paul Stein '44 was at the piano, ed hunt '43, and George Springer '42 were playing trumpets, Frank Lawler '44 was on clarinet...
...hysterical anti-German feelings aroused by the attitude during the last war forced the group to suspend operations entirely, but now the situation is different. Definitely anti-Nazi, the club still holds its beer-drinking and stein-song sessions in the Lowell House Tower room every fortnight...
Woman with a Hoe. Every few weeks somebody in the U.S. wonders what Gertrude Stein is doing...
...devil, set to music by Columbia Professor Douglas Moore; Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, a deft, bubbling radio opera commissioned by NBC, first given in 1939; Four Saints in Three Acts, with Virgil Thomson's gravely melodious music to Gertrude Stein's nonsensical words; Tennessee's Partner, a Quinto Maganini opera on a Bret Harte short story, which has lain unperformed, unorchestrated since 1934; Aaron Copland's play-opera for schools. The Second Hurricane; Deems Taylor's Metropolitan success of 1927, The King's Henchman...
...Buck. Pearl Buck has a perception of human life and a prose style which combine most of the vices of the Lang, Leaf & Myers translation of The Iliad with some of the virtues of the Old Testament, Tolstoy, and the early Gertrude Stein. Her five senses are nearer the page than those of most authors. At her best she has a remarkable talent for telling a thing so that it seems not to be told about but actually to happen. Yet her narrative is never quite heroic and her superbly ordered peasant simplicities keep sieving-off into the remote beauties...