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The eight founders of the Pierian Sodality of 1808 tempered their desire for "the members' mutual improvement in instrumental music" with a congenital weakness for good times during and after rehearsals. Despite these tendencies, administrative curbs, and financial troubles, the Sodality is still maintaining its tradition of music and enjoyment...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: 150th Anniversary of Pierian Sodality | 4/17/1958 | See Source »

Britain's Angry Young Men fell to fisticuffs last week. Named from 27-year-old John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger, they are a group of young firebrands of exhibitionist bent who have been rattling London's literary teacup, with dozens of short-tempered novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sloane Square Stomp | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Many fans of TV's third-degree interview shows (The Mike Wallace Interview, Night Beat] nurture the hope that they may one day see the victim turn on the inquisitor and cut him down to size. Last week it happened. In Manhattan, WABD's Night Beat filled its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Next Question, Please | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

The alternative to this approach is not necessarily the "raised eyebrows, cryptic comment, and other signs of understanding too occult for syntax" school of criticism. But the Department can, without lowering its commendable standards, re-examine the undergraduate theory courses in which concentrators complain that there are too many detailed...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Music Department at Harvard | 3/5/1958 | See Source »

VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ. terrible-tempered, anticlerical novelist, was looking for a female lead for the movie of his novel. Blood and Sand, when at a party he met pious, vixen-toothed Actress Nita ("Nixie") Naldi, who screamed forthwith: "You Bolshevik! You heathen! . . . You worm! You Pagan! You...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shadows from a Lunarium | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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