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Died. Charles A. Taylor, 78, blood-&-thunder dramatist of the '90s; in Glendale, Calif. Five of his melos were running at once on Broadway in 1892. Some of his plays: From Rags to Riches, Yosemite, The King of the Opium Ring, The Queen of White Slaves. Star of Rags was wide-eyed Laurette Taylor, then his wife...
Music. In Chicago, John and Xenia Cage, tired of the old musical sounds, gave a concert with a beer bottle, a barrel, flower pots, an iron pipe, brake drums, thunder sheets, rattles, dinnerbells and buzzers. Mr. Cage played the piano with his elbows...
...history of his time. Finnegans Wake derives much from the philosopher Giambattista Vico's cyclic theory of history, which is highly apposite to the present. According to Vico, and Joyce, the first of a civilization's four phases begins, and the last collapses, in fear of thunder, and a rush for underground shelter; and in that sheltering cave, religion and family life begin again. Today the ambiguous thunder talks above every great city of the earth, and the shelters are crowded, and a civilization, if it is ending, is no less surely germinal. In one great warning work...
...conferred had heard one another's opinions on this problem more times than they cared to remember. There was one inescapable fact: the U.S. was adamant in its embargo. There was another: Germany was urgent for action. The echo of her terrible armies thunder ing at the gates of Moscow beat louder & louder in Tokyo. It caused the blood of warriors to race. But Prince Konoye refused to assume responsibility for a break with the U.S. The Army had opposed Prince Konoye for months, the Navy had supported him. Last week the Navy suddenly turned, declared itself "itching...
...storm is blowing up for the Churchill Government, there has been plenty of warning. For the last month Britain's political skies have grumbled with premonitory thunder...