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...stormiest and largest meeting since its founding, the Harvard Student Union last night passed a resolution condemning "Russian aggression against Finland," and elected officers for the coming year...
...learned taxidermy and engraving before he studied sculpture. In Paris, where he all but starved, his critics compared him to Michelangelo. Serene, dynamic and a prodigious worker, stocky Sculptor Barnard admired the great Gothic and Renaissance stone-carvers, amassed the finest collection of Gothic sculpture in the U. S. Stormiest of his stormy projects was his lank, saddened figure of Lincoln, which was refused a place in Westminster Abbey in 1917, relegated to Manchester, England. For the last 20 years he had labored on his greatest dream-a 100-ft. "Rainbow Arch" sculptured with Dantesque choirs of marble figures symbolizing...
Although in years past Cardinal Pacelli has spent a quiet month's vacation in Switzerland or at Montecatini, Vatican officials blandly informed newshawks that his decision to cross the Atlantic at one of its stormiest seasons was "inspired by his love of the sea." Tersely, the Vatican let it be known that the Cardinal Secretary of State was traveling incognito, accompanied only by his gentleman-in-waiting, Count Enrico Galeazzo, Vatican City engineer and representative of the Knights of Columbus in Rome; that the Cardinal wished no elaborate welcome in Manhattan; that his headquarters during his stay would...
...Dirty Dog." Nineteen months old was the still unratified Franco-Soviet Pact last week, but its every aspect became freshly vivid in one of the Chamber of Deputies' stormiest fortnights of debate before the issue narrowed to a vote...
...substance to their music, to play with such clarity, such a grasp of structure. The many moods Schnabel projects offer eloquent proof of the years he has devoted to the study of Beethoven. Peak performance last week was the abused Appassionata, a flawless realization of the composer at his stormiest which had all the more meaning because it never went wild. Because encores destroy the balance of his programs, this purist refuses to play them, just as he refuses to waste his time on frothy, mediocre music. Most pianists would be vastly impressed by such unanimous acclaim as his playing...