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Lennie Niehaus, Vol. Ill (Contemporary LP). A distinctive-sounding octet, identifiable by its deep-pile texture, its gentle but unmistakable swing, the oddball humor of its sudden pauses and the curious mutter of its counterpoint...
...Life and Work of Sigmund Freud Vol II 1901-19 (512 pp.); Basic Books; $6.75. Freud's term for bowels. Oliver, now a Philadelphia engineer; Ernst, an architect, Martin, a sometime lawyer, Anna, a psychoanalyst, and Mathilde, a housewife, all living in London; Sophie died in Germany after World...
According to Scholar-Poet Robert Graves, the Pelasgians, who inhabited Greece as early as 3500 B.C., thought up this version of genesis. Graves, who makes it the kickoff point of his grandiose two-volume The Greek Myths (Penguin; 95? a vol.), takes the Egg with a pinch of salt insofar as it pretends to historical accuracy. But he considers it a sound Egg in the mythical sense, in that it expresses the true and natural order of things. For like the Pelasgians and James Thurber, Poet Graves has no doubt that "woman [is] the dominant sex and man her frightened...
Rikitake set up a permanent observation station in an old air-raid shelter dug into Mihara's western slope. In October 1951 his instruments showed that the vol cano's magnetism was slowly weakening...
...Brahms for his famed Variations gets some plain and fancy going-over by one of Germany's most successful living composers. Boris Blacher uses a big orchestra in opulent style, with emphasis on suave clarinet murmurings, massed brasses in swing-band style and ingratiating melodies. The disk is Vol. I of Decca's New Directions in Music and Sound. Debussy: Pelleas and Mélisande (Janine Micheau, Camille Maurane; chorus and Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Jean Fournet; Epic, 3 LPs). Maurice Maeterlinck's dewy drama of innocent love and death made luminous by Debussy's timeless...