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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention has been focused upon the diatribe in TIME, of March 29, directed against the memory of the late Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, quite obviously written by one unfamiliar with the text of the old Latin proverb enjoining upon all persons of good breeding to de mortuis nil nisi bonum...
...relaxation of the sphincters for several minutes in succession." An adept can, by muscular force alone, ventilate and irrigate his colon, or rinse out his stomach. A photograph of one of Swami Kuvalayananda's disciples in the latter act is included in Dr. Behanan's well-illustrated text...
...Text of Committee Statement...
Dark, ingratiating Gian-Carlo finished his opera last summer, wrote the libretto (in Italian) as well as the score. Because he believes music should match words, young Menotti rewrote much of his score to fit George Mead's English translation of the text. Menotti is already hard at work on another opera called The Last Superman, about which he will reveal nothing save that it begins with some old ladies playing bridge. At Curtis he met Samuel Barber, 26, of Westchester, Pa., who was beaming at Menotti's premiere last week, as fortnight ago Menotti was beaming...
...Parker wrote Hora Novissima, his masterpiece, taking the text from Bernard de Morlaix' 12th-Century Rhythm of the Celestial Country. The oratorio was full of magnificent solos and broad, romantic melodies, showed unmistakably the young composer's German training. After a great success in the U. S., Hora Novissima became, in 1899, the first U. S. work ever sung at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, England. Three years later Cambridge University made him a Doctor of Music...