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...Composer Paul Hindemith himself conducts two samples from transitional points (1930 and 1935) in his career. Concert Music plays sounding brasses against whispering harps and a trip-hammered piano in a mood of agitated melancholy; Concerto opens with the full orchestra piling forward over chiseling strings at a martial trot that is remarkable for its sheer momentum and verve. Neither piece is vintage Hindemith, but both are expert, sophisticated and full of orchestral surprises...
French intellectuals are among the few left in the Western world who still trot out, straight-faced, the kind of cozy Communist maxims that have been wearing whiskers almost as long as the Russians. Samples: "The Chinese government . . . considers truth its soundest ally." "All |Chinese newspapers| are government-supervised . . . There must be the initial phase in which chaos gives way to a rudimentary order." "Russian assistance -as the Chinese leaders make plain in every speech and report -is disinterested." "In |France| ... the law is determined by the interests of a class." but in China, "justice is made to correspond...
...tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play lived up to Alistair Cooke's introduction of it as "a gentle thing, both odd and funny." When the boola overflowed with the fun of the Turkey trot, ragtime and jagtime at Mory's, and naughty dancing girls at lesser saloons, Stover came delightfully alive...
...today Victor Hauge is the proud possessor of the collection's gem, an ink-on-silk painting by Northern Sung Dynasty Painter Li Lung-mien, so rare that the Japanese government has declared it a national treasure. At their home in Falls Church, Va., Osborne and Gratia can trot out genuine Ming dishes for company. Says Gratia: "We don't regret a single thing we bought-only the things we didn...
...crucial difficulty with the "ill-advised" Food Report and the muddly ticket report was the fact that Administration officers lead the report writers around a seemingly endless series of gorse bushes, round which the intrepid investigators seemed calmly content to trot. Said the ticket report: "We have been unable to obtain an exact accounting for all tickets in Section 31. A cursory observation would seem to indicate that some of these tickets are used by groups other than these listed". The Food Committee was repeatedly promised but never given a copy of the Dining Hall budget...