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...swing man" by voting independently of either liberal or conservative factions in the pre-Roosevelt court, later shifted to a more conservative position under the New Deal; of a heart attack; at his home near Phoenixville, Pa. Plainspoken, scholarly Owen Roberts won fame as prosecutor in the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal, was named to the high court by Herbert Hoover, eventually became the sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist, he headed the controversial 1942 Pearl Harbor Report board that exonerated the Roosevelt Administration of blame for unpreparedness. after his retirement devoted much of his time...
...Sortileges (soloists, chorus and Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Collette's enchanting ballet-opera about an enchanted child, which Ravel reluctantly finished in 1925 after years of procrastination. The child is throwing a tantrum when the magic begins: the armchair (bass), clock (baritone), teapot (tenor), fire (coloratura soprano) come to life to terrify him into better behavior. Despite its size, the orchestra twiddles and tweaks lightly, and the tunes are often as naive as The King and I. Performance: a knockout. Von Weber: Four-Hand Piano Pieces (Arthur Gold, Robert Fizdale; Columbia). A gifted romantic...
Stating that "no party can claim a monopoly on political virtue," DeSapio said "any representations to the contrary are insults to the public intelligence." He pointed to Teapot Dome as an example of Republican corruption, paralleling the Tweed ring in New York...
...WORLD OF LOVE, by Elizabeth Bowen (224 pp.; Knopt; $3.50), is not a tempest but a great calm in a teapot. In the attic of a ramshackle Irish country house, adrift in the summer doldrums, a beautiful girl finds a batch of old love letters. Their author-a dashing young man, dead these many decades, to whom the girl's mother was once engaged-now comes strangely to life. Around his memory, three women begin to dance slowly, lazily, like tired butterflies: the young girl, who falls in love with the shade she raised; the mother, scatterbrained and scatterhearted...
...story, Billy Budd. If he has seen the film The Caine Mutiny and read the novel, he may become aware that both stories are about the same sort of thing, but that Billy is a tragedy while The Caine Mutiny is a tempest in a large and interesting teapot. Billy Budd carries echoes of the vocabulary of Lincoln and of a time when the great issues were debated at the top of men's voices, in the richest words at their command. And Billy Budd's themes, often thought to be peculiarly modern-the individual and the state...