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...benefit of his Herald Tribune readers, Virgil Thomson once described the Philadelphia Orchestra's tone as "smooth as a seashell, iridescent as fine rain, bright as the taste of a peach." These Thomson similes make a succinct description of his own writing. "Music Right and Left" is the third collection of his reviews, covering from 1947 through half of 1950, and ranging in content from Bach to Pravda. Each review is a slick, colorful, brightly polished little essay; the polish is all the more remarkable since each review was written in about an hour...
...which has the rhythm of good and lashing literature. The historical timing is also perfect. An article that will last and be thought over-I hope -by 'whomever it may concern.' We find in it, with clarity of judgment and satirical style, a very fine and sharply succinct analysis of facts as they really are-in true perspective. The tone of the writing reminds one of the political writings of Voltaire."-Roger Lalonde of Quebec, Canada...
...resignation of Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, in 1947, the President had an equally succinct report: "He failed miserably as Secretary of State and ran out on me ... when I needed him worst. His 'bad heart' has now left him when he has found that he made a bad guess [on the 1948 election]. So he and old Baruch have joined the McCormicks, Hearsts and Scripps-Howards to discredit me. They will not succeed." The President thought Byrnes had been too soft to Russia at the Moscow foreign ministers' meeting in December 1945. "Byrnes...
...firing from both sides was getting an early start. Republicans plotted specific answers to every Truman speech, stepped up their attacks on his snowballing budget deficit and the portside list of his Fair Deal. This time the President lacked a keynote as succinct as his "worst Congress in history" battle cry of 1948; Harold Stassen last week tried to give the Republicans as simple a credo to hurl back. "President Truman," said Stassen, "is the cleverest politician . . . and . . . the worst President ever to occupy the White House...
...disturbing you at your luncheon, Mrs. Cassidy." "Thank you, Miss James. It is so kind to cling to the hope") and devastating responses to thoughtless queries ("Why should not school be an open and natural life, like any other?" "Like what other?" said Mr. Firebrace). There are also numerous succinct summings-up whose blandness is more savage than savagery itself: "Maria had also a vein of justice, and though she regretted [her stepson's] existence and his grandfather's, never questioned their right...