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...Philadelphians approached it doubtfully. They were wary of Stokowski's modernistic mood. Schbnberg's awful, shrieking Die Glückliche Hand was still in their minds (TIME, April 28, 1930). But Gurrelieder proved to be neither ear-splitting nor bewildering. It began like Wagner in his tenderest mood, Wagner as tie described the forest murmurs in Siegfried, the love of Tristan and Isolde, of Siegfried and Briinnhilde...
Fascismo, the encyclical charged, plans ''to monopolize completely the young, from the tenderest years up to manhood and womanhood, and all for the exclusive advantage of a party, of a regime, based on an ideology which clearly resolves itself into a true and real pagan worship of the State, which is no less in contrast with the natural rights of the family than it is in contradiction with the supernatural rights of the church...
Brahms's Sonata in G by Violinist Toscha Seidel and Pianist Arthur Loeser (Columbia, $6)?An expert pair plays Brahms in his tenderest, most mellow mood. The recording is excellent...
...Boston book censor is not worthy of this reputation for the detection of horrid words and passages. As an example of this the first part of "World Without End" appeared some years ago under the title of "As It Was." This fragment of one of the finest and tenderest love stories in recent years was suppressed soon after its appearance in the Boston bookstores. Now under a new title and the story continued until the death of Edward Thomas in the War the book is apparently being tolerated by the guardians of the public morals. This may be cause...
...tenderest freshmanhood it develops, nor ought we to affect surprise. Almost everything about the usual university works toward making him feel small; instead of seeing an establishment got up for him and ingratiatingly placed at his disposal, it appears rather to delight in minimizing his importance--with the natural result. Dwindling in his own eyes, he reasserts himself, though that is at first a bit difficult. He cannot subtract one cubit from the stature of those collegiate halls whose very size and costliness and grandeur overawe and humiliate him. He cannot lighten by so much as an ounce the pressure...