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Baranczak's family--his wife. Anna, 10-year-old son Michel and three-year-old daughter Ania--were also granted passports yesterday and will accompany him here. His exact travel plans are not yet set, his mother said...
...renew life by itself, and which, if clung to stupidly as a panacea (no matter how elaborated), would seize the spirit, plunge it into a useless, deadening cycle of paroxysm and exhaustion, ending in the destruction of the person rather than the renovation of society. Bernard Shaw took Ania from The Cherry Orchard, renamed her Ellic Dunn, placed her in a crazy house of supine elegance and overheated, strangling dreams, and showed that Heartbreak House, or cultured, leisured Europe before the War, would split up on the rocks of apocalyptic change. That bitter play, Shaw's greatest, ends with...
Beethoven: Concerto No. 1 in C for Piano and Orchestra (Ania Dorfmann and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Toscanini features a protege who is not quite up to it; Artur Schnabel's earlier version is better. Performance: fair...
...breakfast they ate "smoked blue-fish,, bread crisp like a cracker, chocolate and fruit." The words "spiritual" and "immoral" did not exist in their vocabulary. In lieu of the chameleon word "love" they talked (just a bit tediously) of apia (sexual desire) and ania (a high regard "justifying the physical"). They had no formal philosophy, little interest in abstract thought; they practiced a hedonism tempered with kindliness...