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...dramatic thunder & lightning of the big MacArthur hearing had settled into a steady drizzle of repetitious questions and patient, repetitive answers. Testimony scudded close to the million-word mark, and there were still any number of witnesses and weeks of hearings to come. Crowds had thinned. The big Senate caucus room was no longer needed-the Senators moved the show into a smaller committee room...
...anti-Nationalist, coterie in the 1940's "enjoyed what amounted to a closed shop in the book-reviewing field . . . Week after week, and year after year, most books on China were reviewed by [the same people] with the same point of view." They included Owen Lattimore; Theodore (Thunder Out of China) White and his collaborator Annalee Jacoby; the late Richard Lauterbach (Danger from the East); John K. Fairbank, history professor at Harvard, and Nathaniel Peffer, professor of international relations at Columbia (both longtime apologists...
...editor of Musical America and critic for the New Republic, friendly Cecil Smith, 44, has earned a reputation for bland but exacting reviews, has seldom stirred up any storms. In London last week, after a month of guest-reviewing for the Daily Express (circ. 4,240,000), he had thunder & lightning crashing all around...
Once, Shaw used to fly through the air with the greatest of ease, from drama to politics and back, followed by the spotlight he loved and accompanied by the rolling drums of Shavian wit-which sometimes would be mistaken for the thunder of truth. But in his last three plays, now published in the U.S.-Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, Shakes Versus Shav-the great performer, by 93, was plainly coming to the end of his long career under...
When Russian-born Simon Barere made his U.S. debut in 1936, he was hailed as "a pianist of the first rank." He had everything-thunder, poetry, brilliance and dazzling speed. But somehow Simon Barere, a man with little flair for the limelight, failed to catch the fancy of the crowds...