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Pint-sized (4 ft. 8 in.) Mme. Landowska, 73, is unchallenged high priestess of the plunky, double-keyboard instrument for which Bach wrote, before the piano supplanted it in the 18th century. Under her dedicated leadership, the harpsichord is having something of a revival, and her recording of Bach'...
Although she has made as many as 150 concert appearances in a season, Mme. Landowska now rarely appears in public. "At last I have learned the key to the mystery. I must be concentrated about my work." Most of her time is dedicated to making her recordings of Bach'...
The understandable joy of the editors of the Catholic Digest over their recent poll should be tempered with a large dose of realism. It is very easy to check an answer on a questionnaire, particularly if the answer proves one a good person. It is quite another matter to live...
Three generations of Australians have been delighted and appalled by the salty character of a tiny, terrible-tempered politician whose rallying cry, "What the blithering blazes!", once tinkled the glass chandeliers of Versailles, made Lloyd George blanch, Woodrow Wilson freeze, and Clemenceau laugh. William Morris ("Billy") Hughes was born a...
Hopper feels that the American mission overshadows all other campaign issues. "Events force us to lift our sights from the nation to the civilization level," he said. "I am inclined to get more excited over the dangers in long range directions than over the issues of the campaign, real or...