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...subtitles this novel A Family Chronicle, and the description is apt. The book's rhythm is not that of cinema but of still life. Woiwode scatters memorabilia of the Neumiller clan through 44 separate stories, some of which have appeared alone in such dissimilar magazines as The New Yorker and Mademoiselle. Most of the tales are inventories of nostalgia-the humble detritus of people who, in George Eliot's phrase, "lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." With rare patience and self-evident love, Woiwode commemorates the commonplace...
...things that are generally as sedate as his style--tennis, Scotch whiskey, conservation--and that are diversions, not threats, for the upper-middle class, educated Easterners who make up his audience. His subject matter is often identical with the subject matter of the lush advertisements that surround his New Yorker articles. His articles are peopled with abundant heroes and few villains; his characters are proof that all over the world there are nice people who are friendly and unprepossessing and do good things. Ambition and greed and complexity and tragedy play little part in McPhee's reassuring world...
...blacks and Puerto Ricans have been doing the Hustle for years, its current vogue among people of all colors and ages has coincided with the explosion of "disco" sound-rhythm and blues with a strong Latin beat. "It's like a status thing," says petite New Yorker Chachi Downs, 25. "If you don't know how to do it, you're out of it." The Hustle's biggest boost nationwide came from Van Me Coy's The Hustle, which has made the national charts for an extraordinary 18 weeks. Other popular Hustle records include Loggins...
...They were not me and I could never be them." This wholly false conclusion is drawn by the author on his self-styled "voyage" backward through memory, history and time itself. "I" is Michael J. Arlen, the New Yorker critic and memoirist; "they" are Armenians, an obscure folk of Asia Minor who happen to be his blood relatives. For despite an elegant Anglo-American breeding, despite the aristocratic postures of his father, Michael Arlen is the son of Dikran Kouyoumjian, few generations removed from the peasant villages of Transcaucasia...
...English Ring has again raised the old opera-in-English controversy. The translation used is that of British Writer Andrew Porter, who is now music critic at The New Yorker. Commissioned by the Sadler's Wells Opera and first performed as a cycle in 1973, the translation is a conscientious job and has already been used by several American companies for individual productions. Sometimes Porter has to change the meaning to get the meter right. As Hagen strikes down Siegfried, the vassals cry out: "Hagen! was tust du? Was tatest du?" Literally that means: "Hagen! What are you doing...