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Roussel: Quartet in D Major, Op. 45 (Roth String Quartet; Columbia: 6 sides). Sounding like César Franck double-distilled, the late Albert Roussel's subtle, tenuous music is voluptuously performed...
...account of the strategy of the two generals, one of the most lucid of recent fictional accounts of military maneuvers, apparently modeled on the greater panoramas of Tolstoy's War and Peace. Mr. Sheean's proof of the historical unimportance of the French victory is more tenuous, principally in the soliloquies of the French Foreign Minister, D'Argenson, who reflects as he leaves the field that the French aristocracy had won only with the help of "the savage exiled Irish," that there could be no real victory until "men might learn to fight for themselves instead...
...beginning of Lent last week reminded Christians throughout the world of the last days on earth of the Prince of Peace, churchmen were everywhere considering with renewed soberness the tenuous prospect of peace on earth. Though many Protestant clergymen are out & out pacifists, most Catholics have been restrained on that subject. Newsworthy was it, therefore, when an eminent Catholic divine opened Lent with a ringing pastoral letter on the subject of peace. He was the Most Rev. John Timothy McNicholas, the forceful, ruddy Dominican who for 13 years has been Archbishop of Cincinnati. He wrote...
...that old master of cunning and conniving, working through the catacombs of politics, pouring oil upon the troubled machinery of national politics so that where the one smashes through in ruthless effort at conquest, the other follows after with soft words, with the trappings of intellectualism and the tenuous and slithering tactics of the ancient masters of deception and ensnaring. We refer to one called Sidney Hillman...
...Most tenuous, but also the most interesting in showing how the early Steinbeck twig of romanticism was bent, is the second episode: Jody, who feels deeply the mystery of the distant California Sierras, thinks he has the answer when he watches an old Mexican going off into the mountains...