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Four songs by Yehudi Wyner, 1G, received the most appreciative applause of the evening. Although Brownie, based on a poem by A. A. Milne, was described as being in a "lighter vein," it is in fact a graphic representation of a small child's momentary terror of the unknown. The composer tellingly recreates the image of the poem--a child's imaginary view of the sinister "Brownie," dispelled by the interjection of a companion--by a parallel tension and relaxation of the musical line. When You Are Old And Gray, based on a poem by Yeats, is a beautifully conceived...
Mortimer and Lait have also collaborated on earlier works in the same vein, including "New York Confidential," "Washington Confidential," and "Chicago Confidential...
...youngster who had been shot in the holdup had come out of surgery. "The kid was lucky," the surgeon said. "An inch or two either way, and the bullet would have severed the aorta or portal vein or the hepatic artery. As it is, he'll live...
...wound, and goes back to his home town to find that the war hasn't changed his stay-at-home brothers very much, or himself either. He decides that the real battlefield of life is the self. At 29, Author Phillips knows how to work a vein of quiet realism for sense rather than sensation. Search for a Hero is his third novel, and though it may not be as engrossing as The Golden Lie (TIME, April 30, 1950), it shows an unusual gift for entering the lives of ordinary people. It is clearly the work of a writer...
...questionnaire, prepared and distributed by the Yale Daily News, starts off bluntly: "As a coach, do you consider Hickman excellent, good, adequate, poor, unsatisfactory (underline one.)" And it continues in this direct vein...