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Even before Fauré's death in 1924, blue-eyed Robert Casadesus (pronounced kah-sah-de-soo´) was well on his way to becoming one of the world's fine pianists. Today many swear that he is the greatest interpreter of Mozart and Ravel. Last week, to mark the centennial of Fauré's birth, he led a group of fellow French artists in a program of the composer's chamber music; the Museum of Modern Art audience of arty cosmopolitans voted it a fitting tribute and a notable curtain to another successful Casadesus season...
Little has appeared in these columns about Harvard's Civil Affairs Training officers, formal name for the uniformed brass hats who joke in Japanese and swear in Japanese and even try to think in Japanese...
There were plenty of witnesses to testify that the gypsy woman had been at Abbotsbury in Dorset on the day of the crime, but there were as many who were willing to swear they had seen her at Enfield. Conflicting evidence was further confused by the fact that eleven days had been dropped from the calendar not long before. But when Virtue Hall, the little whore, testified to the truth of Elizabeth's story, the case was finished. Mary Squires was sentenced to hang...
...German disillusionment (All Quiet on the Western Front), faced the end of World War II in better spirits. Writing his fifth novel in Manhattan while awaiting his final U.S. citizenship papers, he said: "I am no more German. Even when I dream, it is about America, and when I swear ... it is American...
...judges more charitably and thinks better of mankind than my youth ever did. I discount idealizations, I forgive one-sidedness, I see that it is essential to perfection of any kind. And in each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful, and swear eternal friendship with that...