Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Antheil believes himself on the track of such a creation. His new instrument is the percussion symphony, employing ten pianos, one mechanical piano, xylophones, airplane propeller, wind machines, electric machines, bells- but no strings, brasses, woodwinds or reeds. He wants to express America, Africa, steel. While his Slavic blue eyes grow round with vision, he will assure the interviewer that to him a good Ford engine seems more beautiful than a mediocre painting...
...skies into a snowbank. The factory siren kept up a steady shriek. Oldest inhabitants ants shifted their quids to ejaculate. It was not only the first visitor in a month but their first airplane ever-just skimming the housetops, circling higher, shining in the sun, veering on a wind gust, dipping, climbing, droning fainter, dwindling away into the mountains again, back to fabulous Denver...
What of the future? Mr. Mumford is not one to forget that Whitman apostrophized a locomotive, that Emerson thought a swift transatlantic liner could be as beautiful as a star, that Thoreau enjoyed wind singing on telegraph wires. But machines were only instruments, not manna or masters to these men. So he finds little health in the so-called Chicago realists of today. He sees their renowned leader, Theodore Dreiser, swallowing the drab scene "with a vast hippopotamus yawn"; engulfing, nothing more: no digestion or creation. Philosopher John Dewey he finds serviceable but juiceless, with a mode of expression...
Vagabondage time is here, but it is not necessarily toward the lecture room that one's feet would wind their sprightly way. Mental vagabondage is also on hand, and a splash of sunshine on the arm of the chair or a glimpse of blue sky is all that is necessary for a tour of Europe, a flight around the bases, or a cross channel swim. For a couple of weeks at least one Student Vagabond will not have to give minute attention to the lectures he visits in his morning peregrinations. For today's program, however, he chooses to feature...
...WIND OF COMPLICATION- Susan Ertz-Appleton ($2). Once upon a time one furnished one's overnight guest with fiddlers to lull him to sleep. Now it is considered sufficient if guest-rooms contain a reachable reading-in-bed-lamp and, better than a novel, a book of short stories. The author of Madame Claire and After Noon now supplies a collection to which no hostess need hesitate to call attention before saying at the door, "Well, goodnight...