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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TWENTIES": Vol. VI of OUR TIMES-Mark Sullivan-Scribner...
...Published last fortnight were the 32 Beethoven sonatas, edited by Pianist Artur Schnabel, peerless Beethoven interpreter (Simon & Schuster, 2 vol., paperbound $5, clothbound $8). Pianist Schnabel contributes valuable fingering and pedal indications, argues over controversial points in long scholarly footnotes printed in French, German and English. Supplementing such conventional markings as forte, pianissimo or con expressione are Schnabel's own suggestions. Examples: "No hurry, no precipitation," "avoid all restlessness," "serious, somewhat gloomy, always arguing...
...events concerned. Sifting his replies, he used some in revising his text, sprinkled others in a multitude of fascinating footnotes. Author Sullivan estimates the number of his voluntary collaborators at close to 100,000. Portentous is the first of their contributions to appear, on page 40 of Vol. I, published in 1926. It is embodied in a footnote dropped from a sentence beginning: "The American temperament included adaptiveness, a willingness more prompt than among other peoples to dismiss the old and try the new. . . ." The footnote: "Mr. Herbert Hoover thinks this point should be emphasized. . . ." "The Twenties." Like its five...
...such comments as in the long discussion of sex as a residue that fills a great part of Vol. II, irreverent readers may get more than a fleeting glimpse of a great thinker in his more human and homely role as a cranky old professor, may echo with amusement Translator Livingston's grave comment: "In his treatment of the sex residue Pareto is less objective than is his wont...
...first March of Time (TIME, Feb. 4) aroused critical excitement less as a finished cinema product than as a bold piece of pioneering in the jungle of pictorial journalism. Vol. I, No. 2 of the same film excels its predecessor in timing, cutting, choice of material. It comes closer to justifying itself as accomplishment rather than as. innovation, makes it apparent that topical cinema which contains no shots of ski-jumpers, cherry-blossom time in Tokyo, or an Atlantic City baby parade is a practicable entertainment formula. Best shot: the Talis- man's huge menacing bow, just before...