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...laced with sundry subplots involving rogues, bullies, detectives, tarts and popinjays, as well as a few sterling characters ranging from a Cantabrigian historian to a gentleman's gentleman, who almost rates a novel by himself. Young Churchill makes an appearance. The suffragists and the Irish troubles and Kaiser Wilhelm crowd in, sometimes hilariously. Edward VII comes across -accurately-as a spoiled, imperious near Nero who nonetheless had a regal way with bridge, economics and foreign policy. The novel ends in 1914, four years after Edward's death, as the honeyed England of Rupert Brooke's young dreams...
...19th century matters-a taste formed and dominated by Paris, from impressionism onward. Ten years ago, there was not one art course in America that would have suggested that Friedrich was a painter of comparable importance to Géricault or even Delacroix, or that the work of Wilhelm Leibl or Hans Thoma might be anything better than an able but provincial reaction to that of Gustave Courbet. It was not always so; last century, Munich influenced American artists even more than Paris. There are plenty of parallels, if not exact concordances, between the infinite longings expressed in German romantic...
Brahms: Four Symphonies--James Levine and the Chicago Symphony come close to definitive readings--if anything in music is definitive--of these concert hall staples. They capture the intellectual and passionate Brahms both, as only Bruno Walter and Wilhelm Furtwangler have done it before...
...Yale has its own police force and detectives, and they have used them before in cases like this," John Wilhelm, union business manager, said, "so I can't see why they would hire an outside firm unless they are trying to scare our members...
...dining hall worker in Trumbull College recently was dismissed for the alleged theft of dining hall funds, following an investigation by the Walter J. Smith detective agency in New Haven, Wilhelm said...